Multiple Man: Explorations in Possession and Multiple Personality

✍ Scribed by Adam Crabtree

Publisher: Collins
Year: 1985
Tongue: English
Leaves: 289
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction by Colin Wilson
Author's preface
Part One: The Multiple Self
1. Mesmerism and the Discovery of Divided Consciousness
2. The Second Self
3. Multiple Personality
Part Two: The Possession Experience
4. Possession: What It Looks Like
5. Willing Victims
6. Unwilling Victims
7. The Cures
8. A Note on the Second Self and Possession
Part Three: A Therapist's Casebook
9. Possession and the Emotional Life
10. Possession by Family Members
11. Group-Mind Possession
12. Possession Puzzles
13. A Note on Reincarnation
14. The Therapy
Part Four: Coming to Terms with Multiple Man
15. Two Approaches to Multiple Man—The Occult and the Psychological
16. An Integral View of Multiple Man
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index

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