Beware of the Other Side(s) : : Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder in American Fiction / / Heike Schwarz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Schwarz, Heike,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: American Culture Studies ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 p.)

This interdisciplinary study examines the still vivid phenomenon of the most controversial psychiatric diagnosis in the United States: multiple personality disorder, now called dissociative identity disorder. This syndrome comprehends the occurrence of two or more distinct identities that take contr...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I: History and Theory
• 1 Personalities or Personality States?
• 2 The Split of Personality:
• 3 Of Demons and Dissociation:
• 4 Shock and Trauma:
• 5 The Other Side(s):
• 6 Voices of Doubt:
• Part II: The Culture-embedded Syndrome – Multiple Personality and Dissociation in American Fiction
• 7 Brand Identity and “Culture-embedded Syndrome”:
• 8 Creating a Public Consciousness:
• 9 Fractured Minds:
• 10 “Man’s Dual Nature” – Classical Literary Texts of Dissociation:
• 11 Beyond Control:
• 12 Further Divisions:
• 13 “What is your name?”:
• Part III: Contemporary Variations in Selected Novels
• 14 “This is what Mary would have said…”:
• 15 “I know this because Tyler Durden knows this…”:
• 16 “ – textbook MPD”:
• 17 “Three! Three personalities in one…”:
• 18 “Recall what had been lost…”:
• 19 “It’s almost like there are two of me…”:
• 20 “It’s all staged…”:
• 21 Voices of Imagination:
• Conclusion
• Works Cited
• Filmography