EHE Book Reviews

Altered States/Dissociation Record Type: Review ID: 881
Oneselves: Multiple Personalities, 1811-1981 Baldwin, Louis
There are 28 chapters, averaging 6 pages each, each consisting of a sketch of a case, often well known, of multiple personality. Some, such as Ansel Bourne, Helene Smith, Doris Fischer, and Patience Worth appear in the parapsychological literature. The cases date from 1811-1981 and are listed in alphabetical order. In the Foreword, the author points out that only in 1980 did the American Psychiatric Association define multiple personality as a distinct disorder, but diagnosed cases of multiple personality were already on the rise in the 1970s (50-plus cases in that decade as opposed to 90 in the preceding century and a half). Baldwin observes that persistent time loss, chronic sleepwalking, automatic writing, and hallucinations are usually closely associated with multiple personality, and sometimes possession ~nd mediumship abilities as well.
Publisher Information:	Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1984. l63p. Bibliography: 157-160; Index: 161-163

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Oneselves: Multiple Personalities, 1811-1981