Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory. (book reviews)

Two novel psychological illnesses originating recently in the United States have, over the last two decades, migrated successfully to other countries, both in everyday clinical practice and in the official nosologies doctors are expected to use. Post-traumatic stress disorder was identified predominantly in men, multiple personality disorder in women.

Both have returned psychiatric theory to a pre-Freudian era in which once again an external 'trauma' appears as the discrete explanation of a particular mode of distress, the patient's symptoms now being read as a bodily and mental ...

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