Table of Contents

The Myth of SanityPreface
Acknowledgments
Part One: Dissociation
Chapter One: Old Souls
Chapter Two: When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday

Part Two: The Shell-Shocked Species
Chapter Three: Duck and Cover
Chapter Four: Pieces of Me
Chapter Five: The Human Condition

Part Three: Split Identity
Chapter Six: Replaced
Chapter Seven: Switchers

Part Four: Sanity
Chapter Eight: Why Parker Was Parker
Chapter Nine: As it Should Be

Notes
Index

About the Author

Martha Stout, Ph.D., served on the faculty in psychology in the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School for more than twenty-five years and was a clinical associate at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She practiced as a clinical psychologist specializing in recovery from psychological trauma and PTSD. Dr. Stout has taught psychology at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York, the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, and Wellesley College. She is the author of, among numerous other publications, The Sociopath Next Door, The Paranoia Switch, and The Myth of Sanity.

Reviews

"We only think we're sane, says this Harvard psychologist. . . . The befuddled, normally sane masses can learn a lot from the victims of grave psychological abuse." —The Dallas Morning News