Myth of Sanity

Why does a gifted psychiatrist suddenly begin to torment his own beloved wife? How can a ninety-pound woman carry a massive air conditioner to the second floor of her home install it in a window unassisted and then not remember how it got there? Why would a brilliant feminist law student ask her fiancé to treat her like a helpless little girl? How can an ordinary violence-fearing businessman once have been a gun-packing vigilante prowling the crime districts for a fight? <p/>A startling new study in human consciousness <b>The Myth of Sanity</b> is a landmark book about forgotten trauma dissociated mental states and multiple personality in everyday life. In its groundbreaking analysis of childhood trauma and dissociation and their far-reaching implications in adult life it reveals that moderate dissociation is a normal mental reaction to pain and that even the most extreme dissociative reaction-multiple personality-is more common than we think. Through astonishing stories of people whose lives have been shattered by trauma and then remade <b>The Myth of Sanity</b> shows us how to recognize these altered mental states in friends and family even in ourselves.