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Search - Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law

Jekyll on Trial Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law
Author: Elyn Saks, Stephen H. Behnke

"A thoughtful and thought-provoking exploration of how our criminal justice system should handle an increasingly common mental illness known as multiple personality disorder." — --Georgetown Law Journal"A provocative study of a controversial topic. . . . Saks' analyses are always clear and incisive, comprehensible even when their premises ... more »and reasoning are unfamiliarand their conclusions surprising."

--Psychiatric Services"Saks focuses exclusively on multiple personality, a controversial and only recentlyrecognized mental disorder. The philosophical underpinnings that frame thelegal questions of culpability, punishment, and competence to stand trial areexamined and provide the background for the author's proposals forapplicable legal rules. Highly recommended."

--Library JournalThe idea that multiple personalities can exist within the same body has long captured the Western imagination. From Three Faces of Eve to Sybil, from Pyscho to Raising Caine, from 60 Minutes to Oprah to One Life to Live, we are captivated by the fate of multiples who, divided against themselves, wreak havoc in the lives of others. Why do we find multiple personality disorder (MPD) so fascinating? Perhaps because each of us is aware of a dividedness within ourselves: we often feel as if we are one person on the job, another with our families, another with our friends and lovers. We may fantasize that these inner discrepancies will someday break free, that within us lie other personalities--genius, lover, criminal--that will take us over and render us strangers to our very selves.What happens when such a transformation literally occurs, when an alter personality surfaces and commits some heinous deed? What do we do when a Billy Milligan is arrested for a series of rapes and robberies, of which the original personality, Billy, is utterly oblivious? What happens when a Juanita Maxwell, taken over by her alter personality, Wanda, becomes enraged and commits a murder which would horrify Juanita? Who really committed these deeds? Are alter personalities people? Are they centers of consciousness which are akin to people? Mere parts of a deeply divided person? Who should held accountable for the crimes? Which is more appropriate--punishment or treatment? In Jekyll on Trial, Elyn R. Saks carefully delineates how MPD forces us to re-examine our central concepts of personhood, responsibility, and punishment. Drawing on law, psychiatry, and philosophy, Saks explores the nature of alter personalities, and shows how different conceptualizations bear on criminal responsibility. A wide-ranging and deeply informed book, Jekyll on Trial is must reading for anyone interested in law, criminal justice, psychiatry, or human behavior.

ISBN-13: 9780814797648
ISBN-10: 0814797644
Publication Date: 8/1/2000
Pages: 272
Edition: 1
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Publisher: NYU Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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