ABSTRACT

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All societies undergo change, and all perceive the speed and extent of change as disorientating, possibly as pathological. In a now more evidently globalized world, models for identity and pathology come from a bewildering variety of sources. And in this, an emblematic new illness in Euro-American societies is multiple personality disorder which collects together and exemplifies the creolising post-modern self.