False Memory Syndrome Foundation Bibliography on MPD, Dec. 1997

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                     DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS (MPD)

37_  Collection C                                               $11.00
    Collection C - Newspaper Articles - 56 pp (unbound).
    FMS Foundation.1993,August-December
       15 newspaper articles on topics including false accusations,
       therapy, memory, MPD, Freud and retractors.

115_  Keenan, M.                                                 $2.50
    "The Devil and Dr. Braun".
    New City, 1995, June 22
       This article reports on the seven malpractice lawsuits against
       psychiatrist Bennett Braun, involving recovered memories of
       abuse, MPD and SRA.

253_  Dennett, D. & Humphrey                                     $4.00
    "Speaking for Our Selves: An Assessment of MPD, . . .".
    Ctr Violence & Human Survival, 1989
       This paper breaks down the polarity of thought on
       differing views of MPD.

256_  Dinwiddie, S.H.                                            $3.00
    "Multiple Personality Disorder: Scientific and Medicolegal
    Issues".  Bull Am Acad Psy & Law, 1993
       Discusses problems with MPD as a validated construct and
       whether a diagnosis truly means the existence of one or more
       personalities.

259_  Frankel, F.H.                                              $2.50
    "Adult Reconstruction of Childhood...Multiple Personality
    Literature".  Am J of Psychiatry, 1993
       A review of the literature on MPD, summary of studies of memory
       with and without hypnosis, and discussion of validating
       patients' memories without corroboration.

260_  Freeland,A. et al                                          $2.00
    "4 Cases of Supposed MPD:...Unjustified Diagnoses".
    Can J of Psychiatry, 1993, May
       Presents 4 cases that illustrate concerns that some 
       cases of MPD may be the result of misdiagnosis.

261_  Gardner, R.A.                                              $2.00
    "You're not a Paranoid Schizophrenic -- You only have MPD".
    Academy Forum, 1994
       Focuses on paranoid schizophrenic women who, with their
       therapists, find that the sexual abuse explanation for their
       problems is an attractive one.

265_  Kluft, R.P.                                                $1.00
    "MPD: A Contemporary Perspective".
    Harvard Mental Health Letter, 1993
        Response in a debate with Dr. McHugh (Article #268) on MPD.

268_  McHugh, P.                                                 $1.00
    "Multiple Personality Disorder".
    Harvard Mental Health Letter, 1993, September
       First part of a debate with Dr. Kluft (article #265) on MPD.

269_  McHugh, P.R.                                               $2.00
    "Witches, Multiple personalities, and other psychiatric
    artifacts".  Nature Medicine, 1995
       Contemporary psychiatric misdirections derived primarily from
       standard medical errors of oversimplification, misplaced
       emphasis and invention are reviewed.

270_  Merskey, H.                                                $1.00
    "Editorial: Multiple Personality Disorder and False Memory
    Syndrome".  British J of Psychiatry, 1995
       Editorial addressing the increase in the number of MPD
       cases and number of personalities uncovered, recovered memory
       therapy, and False Memory Syndrome Foundation data.

271_  Merskey, H.                                                $4.00
    "The Manufacture of Personalities: The Production of MPD".
    British J of Psychiatry, 1992
       Examination of MPD cases from earlier literature, and how this
       diagnosis can be created.

272_  Piper, Jr., A.                                             $2.50
    "Treatment for MPD: At What Cost?"
    Am J Psychotherapy, 1994
       Examines the costs of treating MPD and concludes that
       psychotherapy for MPD is not a cost-effective mental health
       intervention.

273_  Sarbin, T.R.                                               $4.00
    "Belief that One Body. . .2 or More Personalities".
    Int. J Clinical & Exp. Hypnosis, 1995, April
       Analyzes dissociation and repression, and the readiness to
       transfigure imagining into rememberings of child abuse, leading
       to the manufacture of persons.

275_  Seltzer, A.                                                $2.00
    "Multiple Personality: A Psychiatric Misadventure".
    Canadian J of Psychiatry, 1994
       Describes 5 cases diagnosed MPD in which iatrogenic influences
       are clearly evident, and gives insight into the roles the
       patients' attachment and dependency on their former therapist
       played in the diagnoses.

277_  Slovenko, R.                                               $4.00
    "The Multiple Personality and the Criminal Law".
    Medicine and Law, 1993
       Discusses issues including competency to stand trial, MPD as a
       mental disease or defect, and the effect of MPD on cognition or
       control.

280_  Borch-Jacobsen, M.                                         $2.00
    "Sybil-The Making of a Disease: . . .".
    New York Review of Books, 1997, April
       An interview with Dr. Herbert Spiegel in which he discusses his
       memories of Sybil, whom he knew well at the time of her
       treatment with Cornelia Wilbur, the subtleties of high
       hypnotizability and the histrionic personality. Dr.  Spiegel
       states that the MPD phenomenon of Sybil is an artifact that was
       created in therapy.

453_  Wakefield & Underwager                                     $5.00
    "Magic, Mischief, and Memories: Remembering Repressed Abuse" .
    Workshop Presentation.1992
      Overview of recovered memory therapy, nature of memory,
      repression, traumatic amnesia, infantile amnesia hypnosis, MPD
      and SRA.

734_   Mulhern, S.                                               $3.00
    "Satanism, Ritual Abuse, and MPD: . . .".
    Int J Clinical & Exp Hypnosis.1994, Oct.
       A sociohistorical perspective on how stories of blood rituals,
       etc. continue to flourish, although no evidence suggests that
       cultified multiples are victims of real organizations.