Be afraid. Be very afraid. First we had "the Three Faces of Eve". Then "Sybil" (now revealed as fraud, BTW). Now it's "The United States of Tara", inflicted on us, I'm sorry to say, by the talented young screenwriter Diablo Cody ["Juno"]. In fact, it's already among us, although apparently not where I live.
Get ready for a new deluge of cases of MPD/DID inspired by this ill- advised programme. CBS News has a pretty fair presentation of two points of view on this, first the Temple University psychiatrist Richard Kluft, who believes there are possibly millions of cases of MPD walking around (make that 12 million, if we multiply that by the average number of alters each would have). The opposition is represented by the Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Paul McHugh, who believes there are exactly....zero cases. See the video! Or read the transcript! Here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/08/sunday/main4852177.shtml Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [email protected] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
