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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Acocella, Joan Ross. Creating hysteria. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1999 (OCoLC)606424308 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joan Ross Acocella |
| ISBN: | 0787947946 9780787947941 |
| OCLC Number: | 41256113 |
| Description: | ix, 214 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | One woman's story -- The history -- The epidemic -- The therapy -- The science -- The crisis -- The attack -- The retrenchment -- The effects -- The intellectuals -- Women -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author. |
| Responsibility: | Joan Acocella. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
"In Creating Hysteria, Joan Acocella tells how, over the past three decades, thousands of women seeking help for various psychological problems were told that they had multiple personality disorder and were sucked into this nightmarish therapy. In session after session, under their therapists' prompting, they produced "memories"--And screaming reenactments - of childhood victimization. Asked to search within themselves for hidden personalities, they came up with entire squadrons: children, harlots, angels, devils." "This book describes how a group of reckless therapists used hypnosis, drugs, and sheer persuasion to mold their patients' symptoms into multiple personality disorder." "Creating Hysteria analyzes the forces that fed into the MPD epidemic: media sensationalism, Christian fundamentalism, the culture wars, and feminism. (Though ruinous to women, this diagnosis was endorsed by many feminists.) Money was another factor. MPD, the experts said, took years to cure. An MPD diagnosis was one way of getting around the new restrictions placed on psychotherapy by managed care." "Eventually, victims of this cruel hoax discovered what had happened to them and began suing their therapists. As a result, the MPD empire is now crumbling. Acocella describes the damage this bizarre craze did to the profession of psychotherapy, to the child-protection movement, and to women's rights."--Jacket.
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