First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of Mind

Stephen E. Braude

Routledge, 1991 - Psychology - 283 pages

Do people with multiple personalities have more than one self? The first full-length philosophical study of multiple personality disorder, First Person Plural maintains that even the deeply divided multiple personality contains an underlying psychological unity. Braude updates his work in this revised edition to discuss recent empirical and conceptual developments, including the charge that clinicians induce false memories in their patients, and the professional redefinition of "multiple personality disorder" as "dissociative identity disorder."

About the author

Stephen Braude is professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of some sixty journal articles and four previous books, including "The Limits of Influence: Psychokinesis and the Philosophy of Science" and, most recently, "Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life after Death,

Bibliographic information

• Title: First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of Mind
• Author: Stephen E. Braude
• Publisher: Routledge, 1991
• ISBN: 0415035910, 9780415035910
• Length: 283 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / Psychopathology / Schizophrenia