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A tour de force -- a compendium of anecdote, research and speculation that is quite breathtaking (NEW SCIENTIST )
Riveting (DAILY TELEGRAPH )
A rich and rewarding book to help us on our way (Brian Aldiss, DAILY MAIL )
Exceedingly readable (THE TIMES )
Riveting (DAILY TELEGRAPH )
A rich and rewarding book to help us on our way (Brian Aldiss, DAILY MAIL )
Exceedingly readable (THE TIMES )
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[A] riveting account of the latest science of the mind... a stunning new perspective on what makes us tick.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Free yourselve(s)! :). Fantastic book.,
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This review is from: Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Paperback)
Years ago, I was 17 and had an idea that we were more than one personality connected via some form of common memory. This idea predicted, with ease, multiple personality disorder, schizophrenia and the idea that we can "hear ourselves think".
I took it no further, as we all have crazy ideas. However, Rita Carter wrote a book that I had to buy as the blurb on the back read like my original notion. Only now, it's grown up to be a genuine and somewhat tested theory. The first half is the easiest to read casually-it's very engaging and just a little addicting. Because of this, after the first ten pages I skipped to the second half. I'm not a fan of tests, so I'll freely confess to having NOT done these. However I read the practical material here and how the theory can be applied to real life, therefore tested. Excellent work, it echoes with my life experience. Ever found yourself starting new hobbies, abandon them after a blaze of enthusiasm, and then wish you hadn't stopped? Sound familiar? The first half of the book makes the notion of major, minor and micro personalities clear. This material will probably resonate with anyone who isn't "singular" in particular. Personalities are generated throughout childhood and life experience to cope with specific situations and experiences. Some persist because the situations are repeated. Some personalities may not take hold, due to very temporary circumstances or needs; others fade after being established through disuse, though these can be bought back to life. Minor personalities may be quite 2 dimensional and specialising in a task (driving, working in a call centre from a script, factory worker line etc.), or indeed grow to become major as experience grows. Her explanations are succinct and vivid, making it likely that readers will get a tingle of recognition every other page. This was my experience. After having read Taming Your Gremlin, by Rick Carson, I found that Carter's ideas in her book clarifies his ideas. The inner Gremlin/critic is a personality that many, many people have and frequently find holding them back. It's a personality of often extreme caution that can cause social discomfort and artificial limitation by over "self" criticism. With the view of multiplicity, it's possible to be fully aware of this personality being active and note its interference, and reduce its influence in your life. The freeing idea of multiplicity is that you can learn to be aware of each personality you may have and understand better how to delegate parts of your life. Sounds foreign perhaps, but most folks have had the experience of inner dialogues and confusion. Learning to negotiate with these "alters" can make life flow much more easily. Managing "problematic" personalities becomes a possibility too. The fact that the lens of this theory allows for examination of many fairly successful forms of therapy gives it an appeal to me that few other psychological theories have. Very well worth the 3 hours it took to read the book cover to cover. Robert Ornstein's Multimind is an older work in the same vein and is referenced here. I have this book and also felt it works well.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Insight to unlock your personalities,
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This review is from: Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Paperback)
More years ago than I care to remember I undertook a Myers Briggs personality assessment. Whilst I've forgotten much else since then, I still recall the result and the warm feeling as the description of who I was matched who I felt I was. There's something undeniably comforting about the feeling of being understood, even if only by a matrix of questions.
However, even then I wondered which of me was being assessed. Was it the schoolboy, so quiet that my teacher on parents evening had to double-check for my mother that I was actually in his class? Was it the twenty-something software writer who played the part of the team clown? Was it the adult I became speaking at conferences. Who did the results describe, and what if anything did they say about the future? This book explores the multiplicity of personalities that almost all of us have. The first half of the book describes the theory, building a spectrum which at one end has people with a single personality responding in the same way to all situations. At the other extreme is Multiple Personality Disorder, a Jekyll and Hyde like state where completely separate personalities inhabit the same person. Between these extremes we find most of us with multiple personalities connected by shared memories. Rita suggests these other me's are tapped into by the stage hypnotist for comic effect, or felt more prosaically as we switch from our work to home persona on the drive home, or adopt our `telephone-voice'. The book is profusely scattered with vivid examples used to illustrate the arguments. To a large extent we are unaware of these alternate personalities, and have little conscious choice of who to be at any moment. The thrust of the book is that this community of people we are, offers immense potential, a pool of people we can draw upon to meet challenges and create opportunities. Part 2 of the book provides a set of tools which will help you become more aware of the range of personalities you have, how to access them, change and create them. The result is a suite of you's better tailored for different situations. In the hands of consultants these ideas would quickly be abused as answers to apply, but as questions with which to explore who you are and can become, this is a very powerful and intriguing book.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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All of me like this book,
By Mack Fernandez (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Paperback)
It's such an interesting way of looking at personality and behaviour, bringing the whole idea of multiple personalities within us all to the mainstream. I've read Carter's other books on the mind and consciousness and she brings the same clarity and humour to this subject. I'm still working my way through all the activities in the book to find the different personalities within me but so far all of them am grateful to Rita Carter.
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