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 fiance 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 pA startling new study in human consciousness, bThe Myth of Sanityb 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 liv