Alternating personalities; their origin and medico-legal aspect
- Title
- Alternating personalities; their origin and medico-legal aspect
- LC Subject
- Dissociation Hypnotism Procedure (Law)
- Creator
- Mason, R. Osgood (Rufus Osgood), 1830-1903
- Description
- Mason argues the importance of recognizing and studying alternating personalities. He describes the awareness of the secondary personalities for each other and the primary personality, using the case of Madame B. to illustrate. The author identifies conditions in which the secondary personality has been observed: 1) spontaneously, 2) under hypnosis, 3) while asleep, and 4) as a result of pathologic conditions of the organism. The origin of personality as either a "product of a power inherent in nature" or "as an expression of organism" is discussed. The author concludes with consideration of the legal accountability of persons with alternating personalities.
- Issued
- 1893
- Identifier
- diss_maso_alter_1896
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Source
- University of Oregon Science Library. Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 27, p. 1082-1085.
- Language
- English
- Type
- Text
- Format
- application/pdf
- Set
- Dissociation and Trauma Archives
- Primary Set
- Dissociation and Trauma Archives
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Citation
- Mason, R.O. (1896) Alternating personalities: Their origin and medico-legal aspects. Journal of the American Medical Association. 27, 1082-1085.
- Note
- Description provided by Laura Kaehler.
- Contained In Journal
- Journal of the American Medical Association
