Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 9
4. Preface 11
5. Introduction 15
6. Part I: History and Theory
7. 1 Personalities or Personality States? 25
8. 2 The Split of Personality: 41
9. 3 Of Demons and Dissociation: 49
10. 4 Shock and Trauma: 73
11. 5 The Other Side(s): 89
12. 6 Voices of Doubt: 129
13. Part II: The Culture-embedded Syndrome – Multiple Personality and Dissociation in American Fiction
14. 7 Brand Identity and “Culture-embedded Syndrome”: 141
15. 8 Creating a Public Consciousness: 159
16. 9 Fractured Minds: 171
17. 10 “Man’s Dual Nature” – Classical Literary Texts of Dissociation: 199
18. 11 Beyond Control: 229
19. 12 Further Divisions: 259
20. 13 “What is your name?”: 287
21. Part III: Contemporary Variations in Selected Novels
22. 14 “This is what Mary would have said…”: 301
23. 15 “I know this because Tyler Durden knows this…”: 317
24. 16 “ – textbook MPD”: 335
25. 17 “Three! Three personalities in one…”: 351
26. 18 “Recall what had been lost…”: 363
27. 19 “It’s almost like there are two of me…”: 375
28. 20 “It’s all staged…”: 391
29. 21 Voices of Imagination: 409
30. Conclusion 415
31. Works Cited 423
32. Filmography 449