Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law Contributor(s): Saks, Elyn R. (Author), Behnke, Stephen H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814780423 ISBN-13: 9780814780428 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: Why do we find multiple personality disorder (MPD) so fascinating? Perhaps because each of us is aware of a dividedness within ourselves: we often feel as if we are one person on the job, another with our families, another with our friends and lovers. We may fantasize that these inner discrepancies will someday break free, that within us lie other personalities - genius, lover, criminal - that will take us over and render us strangers to our very selves. What happens when such a transformation literally occurs, when an alter personality surfaces and commits some heinous deed? In Jekyll on Trial, Elyn R. Saks carefully delineates how MPD forces us to re-examine our central concepts of personhood, responsibility, and punishment. Drawing on law, psychiatry, and philosophy, Saks explores the nature of alter personalities, and shows how different conceptualizations bear on criminal responsibility. A wide-ranging and deeply informed book, Jekyll on Trial is must reading for anyone interested in law, criminal justice, psychiatry, or human behavior. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - General - Psychology | Forensic Psychology - Law | Mental Health |
Dewey: 614.1 |
LCCN: 96035676 |
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.28" W x 9.23" (1.09 lbs) 278 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The idea that multiple personalities can exist within the same body has long captured the Western imagination. From Three Faces of Eve to Sybil, from Pyscho to Raising Caine, from 60 Minutes to Oprah to One Life to Live, we are captivated by the fate of multiples who, divided against themselves, wreak havoc in the lives of others. |
Contributor Bio(s): Saks, Elyn R.: - ELYN R. SAKS is Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and the Behavioral Sciences at the Law School of the University of Southern California. Behnke, Stephen H.: -STEPHEN H. BEHNKE is Director of the Program for the Practice of Scientific Integrity, and Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. |