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020			_a9780691059082
082			_a153.1 _bHAC
100			_aHacking, Ian
245			_aRewriting the soul : multiple personality and the sciences of memory
260			_bPrinceton University Press, _c1995 _aPrinceton;
300			_aix,336 p.; _c23 cm.
365			_b46.00/INR 3551.20 _cUSD _d00
520			_aTwenty-five years ago one could list by name the tiny number of multiple personalities recorded in the history of Western medicine, but today hundreds of people receive treatment for dissociative disorders in every sizable town in North America. Clinicians, backed by a grassroots movement of patients and therapists, find child sexual abuse to be the primary cause of the illness, while critics accuse the "MPD" community of fostering false memories of childhood trauma. Here the distinguished philosopher Ian Hacking uses the MPD epidemic and its links with the contemporary concept of child abuse to scrutinize today's moral and political climate, especially our power struggles about memory and our efforts to cope with psychological injuries.
650			_aHuman memory
650			_amemory-social aspects
650			_amultiple personality
650			_asoul
650			_apsychology
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