Childhood Antecedents of Multiple Personality

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American Psychiatric Pub, 1985 - Medical - 258 pages
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Childhood Antecedents of Multiple Personality Disorder includes topics such as the effect of child abuse on the psyche, the development of multiple personality disorder: predisposing, precipitating, and perpetuating factors, and the relationship among dissociation, hypnosis, and child abuse in the development of multiple personality disorder.

 

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Credibility Problems in Multiple Personality Disorder Patients and Abused Children
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The Effect of Child Abuse on the Psyche
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The Development of Multiple Personality Disorder Predisposing Precipitating and Perpetuating Factors
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Dissociation as a Response to Extreme Trauma
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The Relationship Among Dissociation Hypnosis and Child Abuse in the Development of Multiple Personality Disorder
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The Transgenerational Incidence of Dissociation and Multiple Personality Disorder A Preliminary Report
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Children of Parents with Multiple Personality Disorder
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Childhood Multiple Personality Disorder Predictors Clinical Findings and Treatment Results
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The Natural History of Multiple Personality Disorder
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Discussion A Clinicians Perspective
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Page 70 - A. The existence within the individual of two or more distinct personalities, each of which is dominant at a particular time.
Page 100 - They are replacing the traditional methods of the neogrammarians which were so prevalent at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
Page 67 - ... presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states (each with its own relatively enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and self) B.
Page xi - Aspects of Multiple Personality in Childhood, the symposium that gave rise to this monograph, was presented at the 137th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Los Angeles. This symposium was the first ever organized to discuss multiple personality in childhood and to explore its antecedent causes. It was a coming together of clinicians and researchers to share current knowledge and establish a data base as a foundation for future work in this area.
Page 72 - States of dissociation that occur in individuals who have been subjected to periods of prolonged and intense coercive persuasion (eg, brainwashing, thought reform, or indoctrination while captive).
Page 85 - ... an invisible character, named and referred to in conversation with other persons or played with directly for a period of time, at least several months, having an air of reality for the child but no apparent objective basis.
Page 16 - Caffey, J.: Multiple Fractures in Long Bones of Infants Suffering from Chronic Subdural Hematoma, Amer.
Page 7 - It is more ignominious to mistrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Page 5 - But why did the devil who took possession of the poor things invariably abuse them sexually and in a loathsome manner? Why are their confessions under torture so like the communications made by my patients in psychic treatment?
Page 122 - Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, second edition, Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association.

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