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The Stranger In The Mirror [Hardcover]

Marlene Steinberg (Author)
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What do the Columbine killings, "getting lost in a good book" and your midlife crisis have in common? According to psychiatrist Steinberg, they are all events that can be placed on a broad continuum of behaviors related to dissociative identity disorder, popularly known as multiple personality. Steinberg, whose research was supported with grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, argues with conviction that mild dissociative behaviorAtemporary episodes of disconnection or memory lossAcan be a useful mechanism for coping with such mundane but stressful events as giving public presentations as well as major traumas like an operation or an assault. In more extreme forms, it is a debilitating disorderAsimilar, she argues, to attention deficit disorderAthat is in need of psychiatric recognition and intervention. Arguing that DID often results from early childhood abuse, Steinberg passionately calls for removing the stigma from its related behaviors, noting that the popular conception of the disorder is gleaned from overblown films such as Sybil and The Three Faces of Eve. Readers can gauge their own dissociative tendencies with the book's abridged version of the Steinberg clinical interview for DSM-IV dissociative disorders. Readers interested in clinical depression and ADD will gravitate to this book, although Steinberg's throwaway comments that suggest that seeing "alternative" lifestyles depicted on TV can cause psychic confusion and that stepparents have a greater tendency to violate the incest prohibition may cost her some otherwise sympathetic readers. While DID doesn't have as much cultural currency as ADD, Steinberg's research has much to add to the contentious debates surrounding childhood trauma, diagnostic categories and the changing relationship between incurable disease and manageable disorder. Agent, Mary Tahan. (Oct.)
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Multiple personality disorders (MPD) are now subsumed under the rubric dissociative identity disorders (DID), or just plain dissociation. Most DID cases are the result of physical, sexual, or emotional abuse in childhood. Psychiatrist Steinberg puts her considerable research and clinical experience to the purpose of making it clear that DID is a "hidden epidemic," that many of its sufferers are misdiagnosed and fail to receive proper early treatment, and that the sensationalism of many MPD cases of yore (e.g., The Three Faces of Eve) has warped physicians' as well as public attitudes. In addition, she explodes the five most common myths about dissociation and describes its five core symptoms. She uses three long case histories to illustrate the beginning and development of DID (drunkenness and abuse played major roles in these instances), and she offers practical steps for rehabilitation. Her work in the field reached a peak when the Steinberg Clinical Interview process was given a place in the fourth edition of psychiatry's bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. William Beatty
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3.0 out of 5 stars The Hidden Epidemic: still unexamined, April 30 2001
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This review is from: The Stranger In The Mirror (Hardcover)
While Ms. Steinberg's book will certainly bring a great deal of much-needed attention to a severely neglected area of psychology, much of what I had hoped to gain from the book at the outset was ignored in favor of an exhaustive and nearly exclusive look at Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). It is my impression that DID, a topic whose sensational aura has proven irresistible to both the media and researchers, has been examined far more than the rest of the spectrum of dissociative disorders. What is frustrating about this book is how Ms. Steinberg begins by telling us how dissociation, in ALL of its manifestations, is widely ignored and far more common than the public realizes. She goes on to discuss Derealization, Depersonalization and Amnesia alone for a chapter or two. The rest of the book looks at them ONLY in the context of DID. It's as if she too has fallen for the romance and mystery that surrounds DID at the expense of much-needed focus to the other disorders. While their illnesses lie on the continuum of dissociation that is nicely detailed by the author, sufferers of Depersonalization (DP) and Derealization (DR) are probably among the most misdiagnosed, mistreated and misunderstood patients in the American Health Care system. DP and DR are extremely devastating to the patient's psyche, and can ruin one's life, but because they seem outwardly functional patients are often treated as low priorities. It never ceases to amaze me when a psychologist, psychiatrist or physician has never even heard of these disorders and doesn't know the first thing about treating them. If it is her opinion that treatment for these disorders is identical to treatment for DID, she must make this clear.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book., Aug 14 2011
This review is from: The Stranger In The Mirror (Paperback)
This is a great book. The author explains dissociative disorders with compassion and this means a lot, considering the confusion around this issue. I found that this book put me at ease because of the way it was written. She explains in detail the therapy sessions of three of her patients and then explains her point of view as to what was happening when the patient switched to a different personality and why they switched. I found it very interesting.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Long overdue, Aug 14 2004
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Written about for years in books such as "Sybil" or "The Bark of the Dogwood," dissociation and multiple personality have only recently come to the forefront of modern medicine and the public's awareness. While it was only a matter of time--this being an illness of epidemic proportions--it is a nevertheless very welcome addtion to the canon. The author's straight forward approach, coupled with excellent research, make this a must for not only professionals, but the general reading public as well.
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