Since the publication of Colin A. Ross's influential work Multiple Personality Disorder in 1989, this challenging field has evolved rapidly--with new thinking, new research, and a new name: dissociative identity disorder (DID). Keeping pace with these developments, this retitled Second Edition has been skillfully revised and expanded to offer a comprehensive, detailed, and fully up-to-date grounding in the history, diagnosis, and treatment of DID.

Readers will find three new chapters covering epidemiology, a sound critique of skeptics of DID, and the problem of attachment to the...

This study discusses the processes of trace metal cycling in contaminated ecosystems under conditions where their concentrations become toxic through high loading rates, long-term exposure or altered environmental conditions. Other environmental concentration mechanisms are discussed, including cation exchange and anion adsorption on different soil materials. Divided into two sections, the book first reviews the current understanding, not only of sources and fates of metals in ecosystems, but also the processes which control metal speciation in soils, metal uptake mechanisms, and plant...

This book uses a selection of documents to illustrate one of the most important themes of British wartime diplomacy: relations with the Soviet Union.

A group of distinguished social scientists from a wide range of academic backgrounds the opportunity to reflect on social cognitive development.