The Osiris Complex
Case Studies in Multiple Personality Disorder
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23764148 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colin A Ro (0000-0001-9583-7046, corresponding author), Colin Ross |
| Year | 1994 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Osiris Complex (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.3138/9781442681972 |
| OpenAlex | W1638896258 |
| ISBN | 9781442681972 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
The purpose of this book is to provide understanding of the relationship between childhood trauma and serious mental illness. Dr Colin Ross, one of the most respected North American authorities on Multiple Personality Disorder, writes that his MPD patients have taught him that virtually all psychiatric symptoms are potentially trauma driven and dissociative in nature. He believes that MPD research will shift the paradigm of psychopathology in the direction of a general trauma model, and away from the two dominant schools of twentieth-century psychiatry, the psychoanalytical and the biomedical. The Osiris Complex is a collection of case histories illustrating the clinical roots of the paradigm transformation Dr Ross anticipates. Contrary to prevalent opinion, MPD patients do not have more than one personality; the so-called different personalities are fragmented components of a single personality, abnormally personified and dissociated from each other.
Anxiety · Dissociative · Dissociative disorders · Multiple Personality Disorder · Personality · Personality disorders · Personality psychology · Poison control · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychopathology · Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) · Sexual abuse · Suicide prevention · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2005 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |