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"Stories of dual or of multiple personalities, which technically are called continued amnesias, have been interesting both to the novelist and to the psychologist. They have attracted the attention of the former because of their spectacular character, and of the latter because of their speculative possibilities. To some of the latter it may be unimportant to read an account of an individual with loss of memory without a new, or without a confirmation of an old, explanation. The tale to be spun here is, however, unaccompanied by hypothesis. To the writer it seems more valuable at this time to recount the facts, whether they be behavioristic or introspectional, than to attempt to conceal them with gauzy guesses about neurograms or synaptic retractions, or to clothe them with the fashionable garments of unconscious mechanisms and levels of consciousness. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)"--Preface.

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"An unfortunate habit of our times has been the carrying of specialization, so necessary in many scientific fields, into the study of the human personality. The consequence has been the subjection of man to the despotism of the various sciences and his division into many loosely related parts and functions. Biology and psychology, genetics and physiology, sociology and the medical sciences, have quarreled without end over the boundaries of the claims which they have staked out and mined in their quest of a more precise knowledge of the nature of man and the determinants of his conduct. Each in its turn has minimized, and even ridiculed, the efforts of fellow-interpreters of human nature; and each has stoutly and jealously supported its own exclusive dogmas. This book is the expression of a reaction against such special theories and the conflict that they have caused; it has been planned and written in view of the acute need of well integrated studies of our sometimes bewilderingly complex life. Man is something more than the sum of his parts as viewed by the individual sciences. If we are to understand human life and assist in the solution of its problems, it is necessary for us to assume the attitudes of both dynamic psychology and sociology, with their emphasis upon the influence of environment and the limits of adjustment, and biology, with its emphasis upon the mechanisms of heredity. It is more than clear that human beings cannot be merely psychologized, or sociologized, or biologized; they must be seen eclectically, as integrations--as Gestalten. Philosophy, once the mother of sciences, was a synthesis to which all the sciences directly contributed. To this lost synthesis modern research, with its promise of a reconciliation within itself, seems gradually to be returning. Hence, in viewing the human personality as a unit, the author has looked forward to this end"--Preface.

Personality disorders.