First Person Plural Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of Mind

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ISBN: 9780847679966 | 0847679969
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 2/21/1995

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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."

Acknowledgments	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
A Brief History of Hypnosis	p. 8
Introduction	p. 8
Animal magnetism	p. 9
The Nancy School	p. 15
Charcot and the Salpetriere School	p. 18
Hypnotic anesthesia	p. 19
Hypnosis and secondary consciousness	p. 24
Further experiments in hypnosis	p. 29
Remarks on automatic writing	p. 34
Multiple Personality Disorder: A Survey of the Evidence	p. 37
Introduction	p. 37
A general sketch of MPD	p. 39
Cognitive, sensory, and physiological differences between alters	p. 48
Further aspects of multiplicity	p. 50
Personalities and 'primary' personalities	p. 56
Is multiple personality artifiactual?	p. 61
The Nature of Multiplicity	p. 66
Introduction	p. 66
The distinctness of alternate personalities	p. 67
The sense of self	p. 70
Apperceptive centers	p. 77
Some potential difficulties	p. 83
Conclusion	p. 87
The Concept of Dissociation	p. 93
Introduction	p. 93
Basic assumptions	p. 94
Morton Prince and co-consciousness	p. 106
Suppression, repression, and the unconscious	p. 112
How not to define 'dissociation'	p. 116
Conclusion	p. 120
The Principle of Compositional Reversibility	p. 123
Introduction	p. 123
Varieties of reversibility	p. 124
An appeal to psychological primitives	p. 129
Anomalous multiplicity	p. 132
The significance of dissociation	p. 135
Postscript: commissurotomy	p. 136
Multiple Subjects or Multiple Functions?	p. 139
Introduction	p. 139
Plato's argument	p. 140
The law of non-contradiction	p. 144
Psychological indeterminacy	p. 151
The utility of intentional parts	p. 156
A Freudian variation	p. 159
The Unity Beneath Multiplicity	p. 164
Introduction	p. 164
Two types of unity	p. 165
The indispensibility of synthetic unity	p. 170
Making sense of abilities	p. 180
Multiplicity within unity	p. 187
Persons and Personalities	p. 191
Introduction	p. 191
Persons as organisms	p. 193
Persons as mere agents or subjects	p. 199
The challenge of MPD	p. 206
The concept of a personality	p. 212
Critical reflections on the clinical literature	p. 214
Multiple personality and Mediumship	p. 218
Introduction	p. 218
The dissociation hypothesis	p. 223
The survival hypothesis	p. 230
The intrusion hypothesis	p. 241
Conclusion	p. 246
Update and Afterthoughts	p. 248
Introduction	p. 248
Dissociative Identity Disorder	p. 248
The 'false memory' debate	p. 253
The recorder view of memory	p. 256
The appeal to repression	p. 261
Additional skeptical errors	p. 264
Notes	p. 269
Bibliography	p. 278
Index	p. 310
About the Author	p. 317
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