24 Personalities
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers with a serious interest in depth psychology and abnormal psychological phenomena
- Helping professionals such as counselors and social workers, who can use it as a case reference for understanding extreme trauma responses
- Those with their own trauma history who hope to find resonance and understanding in another's story (note: may trigger emotional responses)
- Thinkers interested in philosophical and psychological questions of “self,” “consciousness,” and “memory”
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking sensational thrills or entertainment; the book's tone is heavy and true to life
- Readers with low emotional resilience or who are currently in a highly unstable emotional state and easily affected by heavy content
Reading tips
- Keep light reading on hand to alternate with, giving emotions room to breathe
- Notice how the author uses psychological frameworks to organize his chaotic experience, and feel the tension between the “patient” and “researcher” perspectives
- Don't feel obliged to finish in one sitting; read chapter by chapter and allow time to digest and reflect
About the publisher
Shanghai Translation Publishing House is a Chinese publisher oriented mainly toward translation and publishing. Its publications cover foreign literature, world classics and classic works, as well as social culture, folk literature and classical poetry. The database contains 2,618 titles, including Never Let Me Go, Les Misérables (2 volumes), Don Quixote (illustrated collector's edition), The Complete Comedies of Molière (4 volumes), The Complete Novels of Kafka (3 volumes), The Collected Works of Dostoevsky (9-volume set), Reason and Persons, and Oedipus Rex (Translation Classics). Its author resources include foreign writers such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Victor Hugo, Cervantes and Molière, as well as translators such as Zheng Kelu, Sun Jiameng, Li Jianwu and Zhang Kun. The publisher has brands such as "Translation Classics Selections" and "Translation Documentary," and emphasizes translated works in foreign literature and the humanities and social sciences, while also publishing bilingual dictionaries and foreign-language educational books. Public information is limited; the above is based on the book information in the database.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 序言
- 推荐序一 和谐人格
- 推荐序二 离奇的“多重人格现象”
- 推荐序三 艰难而有盼望的人生旅程
- 我的分身
- 序曲
- 第一部分 伤心旅店
- 第一章
- 第二章
- 第三章
- 第四章
- 第五章
- 第六章
- 第七章
- 第八章
- 第九章
- 第十章
- 第十一章
- 第十二章
- 第十三章
- 第十四章
- 第十五章
- 第十六章
- 第十七章
- 第十八章
- 第十九章
- 第二十章
- 第二十一章
- 第二部分 绕过阴沟
- 第二十二章
- 第二十三章
- 第二十四章
- 第二十五章
- 第二十六章
- 第二十七章
- 第二十八章
- 第二十九章
- 第三十章
- 第三十一章
- 第三十二章
- 第三十三章
- 第三十四章
- 第三十五章
- 第三十六章
- 第三十七章
- 第三十八章
- 第三部分 打破障碍
- 第三十九章
- 第四十章
- 第四十一章
- 第四十二章
- 第四十三章
- 第四十四章
- 第四十五章
- 第四十六章
- 尾声
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About the author
Cameron West is a foreign-literature author whose representative work is The Twenty-Four Personalities. Publicly available information about him—his English name, nationality, and dates of birth and death—is limited, and only one of his works is currently held in the collection. Judging from the title and its usual classification, his writing centers on psychological themes of split personality and multiple identities, with a clear flavor of psychological suspense and case-based narrative. The book reached Chinese readers through translation within the foreign-literature category and appeals to those interested in abnormal psychology and the structure of the self. Because verifiable biographical information is scarce, understanding the author and his work rests mainly on this single book, which unfolds around the multiplicity of personality and portrays the fragmentation and integration of an individual's inner world. The subject is unusual and the narrative immersive. The available material is not yet enough to sketch his full creative profile, so readers may take The Twenty-Four Personalities as a starting point for getting to know this author.
Li Yongping is a Chinese-language book author about whom little is publicly known; his nationality, dates of birth and death, and English name are not clearly documented, and two of his works are currently held in the collection. These works span two rather different fields. One is 24 Personalities, a work of foreign literature dealing with multiple personality and psychological narrative; the other is Research on Nonlinear Mechanical Behavior of Plant Fiber Reinforced Composites, a specialized study in materials mechanics within industrial technology. The wide gap between these subjects suggests that he has written in both literary and technical domains, addressing general readers on the one hand and professional researchers on the other. Because verifiable personal background is scarce, a more detailed account of his life and creative development is not possible at present; readers may turn to the two works themselves to learn more about his interests and approach.
