The Politics of Hysteria
A REPORTER AT LARGE about multiple-personality disorder. The writer describes the case of Elizabeth Carlson, who, in the late 1980s and early '90s, …
"Did Carlson ever 'zone out' while driving, and arrive at her destination without remembering quite how she got there? Why, yes, Carlson said. Well, that was an alter taking over the driving and then vanishing again." — on the dubious diagnosis of multiple-personality disorder