This book uses case history methodology to illustrate the relationship
between theory and practice of the study of Dissociation Identity
Disorder (DID). The book is rigorously illustrated with two centuries'
worth of famous cases. It reviews the current state of DID-related
controversy so that readers may draw their own conclusions and examines
the evolution of hypnosis and the ways it has been used and misused in
the treatment of cases with DID. Challenging conventional wisdom on all
sides, the book traces the clinical and social history of dissociation
in a provocative examination of this widely debated phenomenon. In doing
so, the author takes on some of the most difficult questions in the
field.