Multiple Man : Explorations in Possession and Multiple Personality

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Adam Crabtree

Mental Health

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited

In his pioneering work Multiple Man, Adam Crabtree redefines the meaning of "mental health" through his exploration of multiple personality disorder and possession. Initially viewed as anomalies of the human psyche, Crabtree reveals that these two disorders have much more in common than previously believed and that multiple personality, in particular, may simply be an unusual, yet common, form of multiple consciousness.

Multiple Man: Exploration in Possession and Multiple Personality

Psychology & Counseling

Holt, Rinehart

<p>Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication. The present volume, however, demonstrates_empirically_that this reductive materialism is not only incomplete but false. The authors systematically marshal evidence for a variety of psychological phenomena that are extremely difficult, and in some cases clearly impossible, to account for in conventional physicalist terms. Topics addressed include phenomena of extreme psychophysical influence, memory, psychological automatisms and secondary personality, near-death experiences and allied phenomena, genius-level creativity, and 'mystical' states of consciousness both spontaneous and drug-induced. The authors further show that these rogue phenomena are more readily accommodated by an alternative 'transmission' or 'filter' theory of mind/brain relations advanced over a century ago by a largely forgotten genius, F. W. H. Myers, and developed further by his friend and colleague William James. This theory, moreover, ratifies the commonsense conception of human beings as causally effective conscious agents, and is fully compatible with leading-edge physics and neuroscience. The book should command the attention of all open-minded persons concerned with the still-unsolved mysteries of the mind.</p>

Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century, With CD containing F. W. H. Myers's hard-to-find classic 2-volume Human Personality (1903) and selected contemporary reviews

Politics & Social Sciences

Emily Williams Kelly

Edward F. Kelly

Alan Gauld

Michael Grosso

Bruce Greyson

Philosophy

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century

<p>In his pioneering work Multiple Man, Adam Crabtree redefines the meaning of "mental health" through his exploration of multiple personality disorder and possession. Initially viewed as anomalies of the human psyche, Crabtree reveals that these two disorders have much more in common than previously believed and that multiple personality, in particular, may simply be an unusual, yet common, form of multiple consciousness.</p>

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