The Osiris Complex: Case Studies in Multiple Personality Disorder

✍ Scribed by Colin Ross

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 310
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is important for all mental health professionals, and also for the general reader interested in psychiatric phenomena. It will play a powerful role in the social revolution necessary for the recognition of the preponderance, intensity, and hiddenness of severe childhood emotional, physical, and sexual abuse in our culture.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Part One. Case-Studies of Multiple Personality Disorder
1. The Case of Jenny Z
2. An Abused, Agoraphobic Housewife
3. The Woman Who Didn't Come Back
4. A Case of Polyfragmented MPD
5. A Psychic Helper
6. A Woman with Unusual Spells
7. A Woman in a Man's Body
8. Talking with a Dead Grandmother
9. A Chemical-Dependency Problem
10. A Woman Who Decided Not to Remember
11. Request for a Sex Change
12. The Evil One
13. Checking with the Expert
14. Flash and the Destroyer
15. Electro-shock Treatments
16. Temporal-Lobe Epilepsy and Schizophrenia
17. A Little Girl Inside
18. A Foster Child
19. Anne Sexton
Part Two. Case-Studies Related to Multiple Personality Disorder
20. A Man Who Wandered
21. A Bump on the Head
22. Something Out of The Exorcist
23. Indecent Exposure
24. Voyage to Didyma
25. The Stranger Within
26. Obsessions and Compulsions