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Introduction.

Spanos, Nicholas P.

Pages: 1 –13

People who receive the diagnosis of multiple personality disorder (MPD) behave as if they possess two or more distinct identities. They convey the impression of multiplicity by exhibiting a relatively integrated interpersonal style when calling themselves by one name and different interpersonal...

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Hypnosis: Mythology versus reality.

Spanos, Nicholas P.

Pages: 17 –28

Historically, multiple personality disorder (MPD) has been closely tied to hypnotic phenomena. Some modern investigators have argued that, in predisposed children, trauma produces a "hypnotic state" that facilitates the development of alter personalities. Purportedly these alters remain outside...

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High hypnotizability and dramatic behaviors.

Spanos, Nicholas P.

Pages: 29 –39

The seemingly dramatic behaviors associated with hypnosis, when examined critically, turn out to be much more mundane than they originally appeared. Despite initial appearances, even highly hypnotizable hypnotic subjects do not, in any commonly accepted sense of the terms, become blind or deaf...

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Hypnotic amnesia, posthypnotic response, and "brainwashing"

Spanos, Nicholas P.

Pages: 41 –54

Multiple personality disorder (MPD) theorists may well be correct when they contend that the amnesia of MPD patients resembles hypnotic amnesia. However, the descriptions of hypnotic amnesia given by these theorists are often misleading. The available data indicate that hypnotic amnesia does not...

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Distortions of memory.

Spanos, Nicholas P.

Pages: 57 –68

A great deal of evidence now indicates that memory is not simply reproductive but instead involves reconstructive elements. Rather than calling up pictures of the past, remembering involves constructing the past on the basis of current beliefs, task demands, expectations, moods, and wishes. What...

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The seduction theory: Old and new versions.

Spanos, Nicholas P.

Pages: 69 –76

Like many modem psychotherapists, Freud first believed that many women who are unhappy and dissatisfied with their lives or show a wide variety of emotional symptoms were sexually abused as children but had forgotten the abuse. Careful reviews of Freud's work suggest that the abuse memories he...

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Child sexual abuse and the fate of abuse memories.

Spanos, Nicholas P.

Pages: 77 –90

Although incest and other forms of severe childhood sexual abuse are more common than was once believed, I believe that they are not nearly as common as incest-resolution therapists frequently imply. Moreover, the best available evidence indicates that people who were abused after the ages of 3...

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Hypnosis, age regression, and memory.

Spanos, Nicholas P.

Pages: 91 –104

Hypnotic procedures do not appear to reliably enhance the recovery of accurate memories. Hypnotic subjects are at least as likely as nonhypnotic subjects to make errors in recall, to be misled by leading questions, to confuse imaginings with real memories, and to be overconfident in their recall....

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Complex false memories, body memories, and hypnosis.

Spanos, Nicholas P.

Pages: 105 –115

Therapists who believe the false memories of multiple personality disorder (MPD) patients cite several reasons for their belief, all of which are problematic. Reliance on the strength of patients' emotional responses and the detail and apparent coherence of the memories are misleading because...

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UFO abduction: An example of complex false memory.

Spanos, Nicholas P.

Pages: 117 –129

Sexual abuse during childhood obviously occurs, and sometimes it occurs in the context of kidnapping and torture by multiple assailants. Although extremely rare, documented cases of sexual abuse followed by the cannibalism of the young victims are not unheard of. Such real cases seem to lend...

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