Moral and metaphysical reflections on multiple personality disorder
pp. 221-241
in: , Personhood and health care, Berlin, Springer, 2001Abstract
There is already much controversy over whether or not multiple personality disorder exists. Among the many concerns about this disease classification which I will not consider directly are the general objections to Freudian psychoanalysis and the specific objections to the entire so-called recovered memory movement. Frederick Crews, for example, has led a backlash against the latter by attacking the former as a pseudo-science, without a shred of evidence. Hence in his view, the recovered memory technique, used throughout the diagnosis and treatment of multiple personality disorder, is responsible for incredible tales, produced in an atmosphere of suggestion, and resulting in the ruin of many lives (1995).