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Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

Mad in America

Take multiple personality disorder , for example. It surfaced in the 1950s, reached a cultural peak where people were walking into therapy offices claiming to have multiple personalities, and was popularized in films. These are conditions that emerge at a particular historical moment and then, often, fade away.

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