Multiple Personality in Ordinary People, New Findings

Penguin Books releases its edition of Harvard psychologist's startling new book THE MYTH OF SANITY: TALES OF MULTIPLE PERSONALITY IN EVERYDAY LIFE.

DOES YOUR SPOUSE HAVE MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES? HARVARD PSYCHOLOGIST SAYS IT'S MORE COMMON THAN YOU THINK.

Why does a gifted psychiatrist suddenly begin to torment his own beloved wife?

How can a ninety-pound woman carry a massive air conditioner to the second floor of her home, install it in a window unassisted, and then not remember how it got there?

How can an ordinary, violence-fearing businessman once have been a gun-packing vigilante prowling the crime districts for a fight?

DO YOU FEEL "SPACEY" AND EXTRA-DISTRACTED SINCE SEPTEMBER 11? YOU'RE NOT ALONE!

Penguin Books releases its edition of Dr. Martha Stout's astonishing new book, THE MYTH OF SANITY, which reveals that dissociated mental states are normal reactions to pain, terror, and violence, and that even the most extreme dissociative condition-- multiple personality-- is more common than we think. Dr. Stout describes HOW TO RECOGNIZE THESE ALTERED MENTAL STATES in friends and family, and even in ourselves.

"A gift to all people who wish to understand the roots of human trauma, violence and disconnection." --Judith Jordan, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School

"Reveals the large and small traumas that cause us to separate ourselves from our experience of living..." --Derrick Jensen, author of A LANGUAGE OLDER THAN WORDS

Martha Stout, Ph.D., is a psychologist at the Harvard Medical School. An expert on how people overcome the effects of stress and trauma on the mind, she has appeared on National Public Radio, KABC, and in the BOSTON GLOBE and other media.

For review copies of THE MYTH OF SANITY, please send your media credentials and mailing address to martha_stout@hms.harvard.edu

To view the book web site, visit www.mythofsanity.com

To request an interview with the author, contact Dr. Martha Stout 617.262.9334 or e-mail martha_stout@hms.harvard.edu

Photos of Dr. Stout can be viewed at www.mythofsanity.com