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Direct linkWalker, Wayland – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
This article queries how one type of human difference--alterity, the experience of multiple distinct consciousnesses, or "alters," by one person--is pathologized in American culture. This experience is inscribed as a mental illness, labeled now as dissociative identity disorder (DID) and formerly known as multiple personality disorder (MPD). In…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Popular Culture, Mental Disorders, Adult Students
Peer reviewedClark, M. Carolyn; Caffarella, Rosemary S. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1999
Discusses definitional issues and tensions around adult development theory. Presents a typology of developmental theories: biological, psychological, sociocultural, and integrative. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Definitions
