Creating Hysteria Women and Multiple Personality Disorder

"[Acocella] is not neutral--angry and scornful, rather--but then she is describing outrageous events....[She] covers familiar ground, but she finds fresh details....For her, the crucial target is not sexual abuse but poverty. CREATING HYSTERIA should move psychiatrists, political activists and journalists to examine how they contributed to this debacle, and the story it tells poses a particular challenge for psychotherapy: what if the empathetic stance is as risky in its own way as the clinical distance it replaced?"Acocella, Joan R. is the author of 'Creating Hysteria Women and Multiple Personality Disorder', published 1999 under ISBN 9780787947941 and ISBN 0787947946.