Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality [Paperback]

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 )

[A] riveting account of the latest science of the mind... a stunning new perspective on what makes us tick.

Does for personality what EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE did for intelligence

In MULTIPLICITY, Rita Carter - award-winning science writer and international speaker - offers a new and vital understanding of personality. Rita explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. We are used to thinking of ourselves as one thing or the other - either introvert or extrovert, say - but things are rarely that simple for most of us. That's why we sometimes feel like a different person depending on mood, company and surroundings, why we sometimes suffer unaccountable memory lapses, why we buy something we then decide we didn't want in the first place, or why 'somebody else' turns off the alarm clock in the morning. Importantly, MULTIPLICITY is also a practical guide to building a happy 'household' of personalities, explaining how to identify these different versions of ourselves and how to enable them to co-operate so that we can function successfully in life. MULTIPLICITY is both an eye-opening and highly practical account of personality.

Rita Carter is an award-winning science and medical writer who contributes to, among others, THE TIMES, NEW SCIENTIST and the INDEPENDENT. Having in the past worked as a TV presenter, Rita continues to appear in the media as an authority on science and gives lectures throughout Europe and the US.