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Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Paperback)

by Rita Carter (Author)

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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown (17 Jan 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0316730882
ISBN-13: 978-0316730884
Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 2 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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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 * 'An up-to-date, easy to read happy hybrid of textbook and coffee-table tome' WASHINGTON POST

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5.0 out of 5 stars All of me like this book, 4 Feb 2008

By	Mack Fernandez (London) - See all my reviews

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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5.0 out of 5 stars Insight to unlock your personalities, 16 Jan 2010

By	Steven Unwin "Steve Unwin" (Preston, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning!, 23 Jan 2008

By	MH (Scotland) - See all my reviews

Anybody familiar with Rita Carter's brilliant earlier books, such as Mapping the Mind, will be aware of her uncanny ability to make the most complex and difficult subjects accessible - and even entertaining - to us lay readers. In Multiplicity, Carter not only explores a difficult and often misunderstood subject with her trademark clarity and panache; she may also have helped to transform the way that we all see ourselves and see one another. A stunning, breathtaking book.

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