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The Myth of Sanity by Martha Stout

The Myth of Sanity

Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness

Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness

By Martha Stout

By Martha Stout

By Martha Stout

By Martha Stout

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    About The Myth of Sanity

    Why does a gifted psychiatrist suddenly begin to torment his own beloved wife? How can a ninety-pound woman carry a massive air conditioner to the second floor of her home, install it in a window unassisted, and then not remember how it got there? Why would a brilliant feminist law student ask her fiancé to treat her like a helpless little girl? How can an ordinary, violence-fearing businessman once have been a gun-packing vigilante prowling the crime districts for a fight?

    A startling new study in human consciousness, The Myth of Sanity is a landmark book about forgotten trauma, dissociated mental states, and multiple personality in everyday life. In its groundbreaking analysis of childhood trauma and dissociation and their far-reaching implications in adult life, it reveals that moderate dissociation is a normal mental reaction to pain and that even the most extreme dissociative reaction-multiple personality-is more common than we think. Through astonishing stories of people whose lives have been shattered by trauma and then remade, The Myth of Sanity shows us how to recognize these altered mental states in friends and family, even in ourselves.

    About The Myth of Sanity

    Why does a gifted psychiatrist suddenly begin to torment his own beloved wife? How can a ninety-pound woman carry a massive air conditioner to the second floor of her home, install it in a window unassisted, and then not remember how it got there? Why would a brilliant feminist law student ask her fiancé to treat her like a helpless little girl? How can an ordinary, violence-fearing businessman once have been a gun-packing vigilante prowling the crime districts for a fight?

    A startling new study in human consciousness, The Myth of Sanity is a landmark book about forgotten trauma, dissociated mental states, and multiple personality in everyday life. In its groundbreaking analysis of childhood trauma and dissociation and their far-reaching implications in adult life, it reveals that moderate dissociation is a normal mental reaction to pain and that even the most extreme dissociative reaction-multiple personality-is more common than we think. Through astonishing stories of people whose lives have been shattered by trauma and then remade, The Myth of Sanity shows us how to recognize these altered mental states in friends and family, even in ourselves.

    About Martha Stout

    Martha Stout, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist in private practice, served on the faculty in psychology in the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School for twenty-five years. She is also the author of The Myth of Sanity. She lives on… More about Martha Stout

    About Martha Stout

    Martha Stout, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist in private practice, served on the faculty in psychology in the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School for twenty-five years. She is also the author of The Myth of Sanity. She lives on… More about Martha Stout

    Product Details

    Category: Psychology | Health & Fitness

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Feb 26, 2002 | 288 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780142000557

    Category: Psychology | Health & Fitness

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Feb 26, 2002 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9781101161630

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    Praise

    “We only think we’re sane, says this Harvard psychologist. . . . The befuddled, normally sane masses can learn a lot from the victims of grave psychological abuse.” —The Dallas Morning News

    Table Of Contents

    The Myth of SanityPreface
    Acknowledgments
    Part One: Dissociation
    Chapter One: Old Souls
    Chapter Two: When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday

    Part Two: The Shell-Shocked Species
    Chapter Three: Duck and Cover
    Chapter Four: Pieces of Me
    Chapter Five: The Human Condition

    Part Three: Split Identity
    Chapter Six: Replaced
    Chapter Seven: Switchers

    Part Four: Sanity
    Chapter Eight: Why Parker Was Parker
    Chapter Nine: As it Should Be

    Notes
    Index

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