Multiple identities & false memories : a sociocognitive perspective /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spanos, Nicholas P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [1996]
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / John F. Chaves and Bill Jones
  • Introduction
  • The use of hypnosis as a therapeutic tool. Hypnosis : mythology versus reality
  • High hypnotizability and dramatic behaviors
  • Hypnotic amnesia, posthypnotic response, and "brainwashing"
  • Creating false memories. Distortions of memory
  • The seduction theory : old and new versions
  • Child sexual abuse and the fate of abuse memories
  • Hypnosis, age regression, and memory
  • Complex false memories, body memories, and hypnosis
  • UFO abduction : an example of complex false memory
  • The experimental creation of multiplicity
  • Multiple identities in other cultures and times. Cross-cultural studies of spirit possession
  • Historical manifestations of demonic possession
  • The social functions of possession
  • From possession to dual consciousness
  • From dual consciousness to multiple personality
  • The history of dissociation
  • The theory of multiple personality disorder. Multiple personality disorder and social learning
  • Correlates of multiple personality disorder
  • Child abuse and multiple personality disorder
  • Multiple personality disorder, recovered memories, and sociopolitical considerations
  • Conclusion. Final thoughts.