Beware of the Other Side(s)

Zusammenfassung

This interdisciplinary study examines the still vivid phenomenon of the most controversial psychiatric diagnosis in the United States: multiple personality disorder, now called dissociative identity disorder. This syndrome comprehends the occurrence of two or more distinct identities that take control of a person's behavior paired with an inexplicable memory loss. Synthesizing the fields of psychiatry and the dynamics of the disorder with its influential representation in American fiction, the study researches how psychiatry and fiction mutually shaped a mysterious syndrome and how this reciprocal process created a genre fiction of its own that persists until today in a very distinct self-referential mode.

Schlagworte

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Bibliographische Angaben

Auflage

1/2014

Copyrightjahr

2014

ISBN-Print

978-3-8376-2488-5

ISBN-Online

978-3-8394-2488-9

Verlag

transcript, Bielefeld

Reihe

American Culture Studies

Band

8

Sprache

Englisch

Seiten

456

Produkttyp

Monographie