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Shattered Diana: A Memoir Documenting How Trauma and Evangelical Fundamentalism Created PTSD, Bipolar, Dissociative Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder) in Me (Volume 1)
Shattered Diana A Memoir Documenting How Trauma and Evangelical Fundamentalism Created PTSD Bipolar Dissociative Disorder in Me - Multiple Personality Disorder - Volume 1 Author:Diana L Lee MA The Shattered Diana series is an autoethnographic study illustrating the remarkable courage of its author in her agonizing quest for authentic self-discovery in the face of the absurdities, toxicity, and destructiveness of dogmatic religious fundamentalism. This series pioneers a compelling literary genre growing out of Diana Lee?s extensive kno... more »wledge of history, psychology, psychiatry, neurology, biblical literature, fundamentalism and cults. The series? vivid and artistic descriptive journeys into the author?s existential realities are woven beautifully and seamlessly into an informed multilayered intellectual analysis of a world torn apart by one epistemic pathology after another. There is a genuine education in this series and enlightenment with respect to the destructive and crippling effects of fundamentalist worldviews that remain all too common at the outset of the 21st century. William Sargant's, The Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing ? How Evangelists, Psychiatrists, Politicians and Medicine Men Can Change Your Beliefs and Behaviors, has long been recognized as an important work in experimental psychology and for the history of psychology. Diana's ability to use her education and personal experience to link Susanna Wesley's child rearing methods to Sargant's insights regarding John Wesley?s conversion techniques opens a larger window into understanding the roots of the religious phenomenon known as Evangelicalism. WAYNE VINEY Emeritus Professor of Psychology Emeritus University Distinguished Teaching Scholar Colorado State University A History of Psychology« less