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Becoming One: A Story of Triumph over Multiple Personality Disorder
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| Accounts of Multiple Personality Disorder have usually been written by mental health professionals as texts or case studies. Now, in Becoming One, Sarah Olson has allowed us the rare privilege of entering her internal world in her first-person account of her journey from fragmentation to wholeness. Two little girls, the author and her sister, were routinely terrorized and assaulted over a period of years by a family friend. One grew up closed and withdrawn, the other angry and self-destructive. And, most painful of all, their common suffering resulted in estrangement from each other. Becoming One began as Olson's attempt to provide a written account of her memories for her sister as a means of reconciliation and healing. The author's courage and generosity in candidly sharing her remarkable experiences provide important insights into the world of dissociation. Here is at once a highly personal look into an individual life, the dynamics of a troubled family, and the healing power of the therapeutic process.
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Beyond Integration: One Multiple's Journey
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| A former multiple-personality disorder patient and her therapist present a conjoint therapist-client narrative on the process of integration, post-integration, and recovery of lost developmental stages. Companion to The Family Inside: Working With the Multiple. |
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Can I Look Now: Recovery from Multiple Personality Disorder
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First Person Plural : My Life as a Multiple
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| West, a psychologist, relates a deeply painful narrative of his battle with dissociative identity disorder (DID). He describes the horrors he endured, both mental and physical, as a child who was grossly abused by his mother, attributing the fragmentation of his adult life to these appalling experiences and telling how his long, happy marriage and family relationships were nearly ruined by the effects of DID. The book is not entirely dark; it provides hope and encouragement to DID victims and suggests how they can be helped through the support and understanding of others. It's also a practical guide for future clinicians, offering insight into a perplexing condition. West concludes with an epilog in which he lays out his theory that abused children can achieve a sense of wholeness through the understanding and acceptance of others and the reinvention of the self. Highly recommended for any public library. |
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Flock : The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
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| In this extraordinary, convincing account of her psychological fragmentation and arduous journey toward wholeness, the pseudonymous Casey displays the impulse toward health that seems a driving force of nature. She begins her story, with all names and locations changed, at the University of Chicago, where, as a graduate student, she sought counseling in 1981. Unlike Casey's previous experiences of quick-fix therapy, this time the psychotherapist, Wilson, proved a sensitive listener. Casey soon revealed her secret names, marking different selves with distinct memories and, as observed by Wilson, distinct voices, postures and expressions. Originally opposed to Wilson's diagnosis of Multiple Personality Disorder, Casey embraced it during her struggles over the four-year course of intensive therapy, through stages of cooperation, opposition and even sabotage among selves that included the competent Renee, scholar Joan, self-destructive Josie, self-possessed Kendra and Rusty, a boy. Wilson's interspersed notes, covering her concerns as she extended therapy beyond the office and included her husband, a high school teacher, in the "reparenting" of each of Casey's personalities, offer a balancing perspective. Deftly told and studded with striking images, Casey's story--distinguished by her intelligence and courage and by Wilson's unremitting patience and compassion--witnesses equally the power of cruelty and indifference to damage children profoundly, and the capacity of love and hard work to heal. Casey is now a university professor. |
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Got Parts? An Insider's Guide to Managing Life Successfully with Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Mending Ourselves: Expressions of Healing and Self-Integration
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Multiple Personality Disorder from the Inside Out
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Rag Doll : A Journey of Healing and Integration
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| Following a near-death experience, Alayna has memories of early childhood abuse. She finds herself on a journey that takes her from despair to discovery of multiple personalities, and finally to a time of healing and integration. This is a book of courage and hope, of special value to survivors and their families, as well as psychotherapists. |
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The Multiple's Guide to Harmonized Family Living: A Healthy Alternative or Prelude to Integration
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