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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 155.2 EAN: 9780316115384 ISBN: 031611538X Label: Little, Brown and Company Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: March 27, 2008 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Studio: Little, Brown and Company Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: MULTIPLICITY presents an entirely new view of our selves. Instead of seeing each person as a single personality, Carter argues that we all consist of multiple characters, each one with its own viewpoint, emotions and ambitions. The mother who feeds breakfast to her children, for example, has quite different concerns and opinions from the woman taking part in a boardroom discussion two hours later, and from the woman she will be with her husband that night. Yet all three may share the same body, and none is any more "authentic" than another. Personality changes in a person are conventionally frowned upon, but Carter shows that in today's world our ability to switch from one personality to another according to what is demanded of us is a huge strength, providing one's personalities work together as a team rather than against each other. In addition to its groundbreaking scientific thesis, MULTIPLICITY contains extensive exercises designed to help readers achieve this harmony. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Oh, please!In "Multiplicity" Rita Carter makes a pathetic attempt to validate her bizarre idea that typical variations in human mood and behavior are evidence of unique and, crucially, separate "personalities" that inhabit our "selves." She misuses and misconstrues scientific data throughout this ridiculous fiction. Carter makes mention of such fantastical things as "the part of the brain that processes memories." (There is, in fact, no such "part" of the brain.) She claims that, via the magic of brain-imaging ... Read More Rating: - Very interesting researchMost of us tend to think of ourselves as one individual, a consistent self. In Multiplicity, Carter argues that we consist of a group of unique personalities - each with its own characteristics. She contends that we slide from one personality to another as the situation demands. These many personalities are held together by shared memories. Part I of the book provides an overview of dissociation and multiple personality that supports the notion of multiple personalities. While some of Carter's ... Read More Rating:  - How Many Personalities Are Inside You?That irritating co-worker you were stuck sitting beside (again!) sees a decidedly different side of you than your best friend does. That's because you have may people inside of you. That's what veteran science writer, Rita Carter discovered as she began reading about bi-polar personalities for Mapping the Brain. Emerging research shows that several, "personalities are made and kept separate in the human brain" ... of everyone. Want a glimpse of how many you have? Depending on the situation and who you're are ... Read More Rating: - An exceptionally clear roadmap of human personality. A smart read, a timely update of how our personalities operate.Rita Carter is a fine writer with a sterling track record in charting the human mind, both in her well praised Mapping the Mind, and Consciousness (Mapping Science) and here she explores the issue of personality. The twist here is that recent advances in neuro-science are enabling us to understand much better how the brain operates, and Carter vividly explains a model that I'd describe as a networked email system with messages shared, responded-to, forwarded just as they are in an organisation. And ... Read More 
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