Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Hacking, Ian
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Date:	08/23/1998
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Little more than two decades ago, only a tiny number of multiple personality disorder (MPD) cases were recorded in the history of Western medicine. Today hundreds seek treatment for MPD. Here distinguished philosopher Ian Hacking uses MPD and its links with child abuse and repressed memory to scrutinize today's moral and political climate.