Philosophy of personal identity and multiple personality

This study offers both a full-fledged philosophical theory of personal identity and a systematic account of multiple personality. Gunnarsson combines the methods of analytic philosophy with close hermeneutic and phenomenological readings of cases from different fields, focusing on psychiatric and ps...

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Main Author: Gunnarsson, Logi.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2009.
Series:Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 17.
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505 0 # |a Introduction -- Am I alone in my body? -- Multiple personality -- Personal identity -- Diachronic identity -- What am I fundamentally? -- Empirical discernability and fission -- My body -- The various senses of "personal identity" -- Multiple personality and individuation -- Morton Prince's seminal case study The dissociation of a personality -- Philosophical theories of multiple personality -- The coexistence thesis -- Sharing my body -- A criterion of individuation -- Multiple personality in therapeutic and biographic discourses -- Multiple personality in literary discourses. 
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