Multiple Personalities

"This novel is not for the faint of heart, but it rewards the brave with a riveting tale that grips deeply." DJ Moore A dark, psychological thriller that is sure to keep you up well past your bedtime After enduring a lifetime of abuse at the hands of the man that vowed to cherish her, Genny Carter knows only the role of the victim. More focused on avoiding punishment than the wellbeing of her three daughters, she ignored the terror inflicted on them by their father during their childhood. She kept his secrets. Now, in her sixties, Genny has had enough. She needs her daughters to help her ...

Switching Time is the first story centering on multiple personality disorder to be told by the treating physician. It is the incredible saga of a young woman stranded in unimaginable darkness who, in order to survive, created 17 different versions of herself. One by one, Karen's "alters" began showing themselves: men, women, young boys, a toddler, black, white, vicious, nurturing, prim, licentious. And their "stepping out" confronted Baer with the challenge of a lifetime.

At the peak of his professional career, after having led the Asia Society for nearly a decade, Oxnam was haunted by periodic blackouts and episodic rages. After his family and friends intervened, Oxnam received help from a psychiatrist, Dr. Jeffery Smith, and entered a rehab center. It wasn't until 1990, during a session with Dr. Smith, that the first of Oxnam's 11 alternate personalities, an angry young boy named Tommy, suddenly emerged.

Christine Ducommun was a happily married wife and mother of two when, after returning to live in the house of her childhood, she began to experience panic attacks and night terrors. Says the author, "I sought therapy, and there I discovered, to my shock and horror, that I had been sexually abused at the hands of my father at a very early age. I surely didn't want to believe it. But as my mind began to release bizarre flashbacks, my alters began to show themselves.

Multiple Personality Disorder is real. 'Julia' portrays the raw path of Multiple Personality Disorder, now known as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). This journey is shared by the author and the client ‘Julia’ through the process of therapy, originally for the treatment of anxiety. The initial consultations develop unwittingly into a relationship of deep mutual trust and respect which blur the lines between patient and client. When Julia acknowledges she has a voice talking above the noise in her head, the real work begins. It is not long before a person appears from nowhere, ...

Journalist Debbie Nathan reveals the true story behind the famous case of Sybil, the woman with sixteen different personalities.

Cammie is a healthy little girl who lives with her mother, father, little sister Prissy, and her grandmother. Cammie thinks there is something wrong with her because she hates her mother and yet loves her too. She feels lonely and scared many times. Her daddy works nights and she doesn’t feel safe with her mother. When Daddy has an accident and has to stay home to recuperate, things take an unusual turn. He becomes involved in his little girls’ lives and realizes that his wife isn’t the person he thought she was.

Guided by psychologist Jamie Marich—a trauma-informed clinician living with a dissociative disorder herself—this book tells you everything you need to know about dissociation...but were too afraid to ask.

A true tale of Dissociative Identity Disorder (a form of multiple personality disorder). Stacy Bewick is lost. Lost inside her head. Born to parents who abused her body, mind and soul, Stacy learned to survive through psychic connections to angelic spirit guides and by creating inner personalities. By the time Stacy was two, the personality called "Marla" knew how to find food in the paper garbage sack in the kitchen. When she was four, the personality called "George" knew how to be strong enough to block the pain from Mommy's forsythia whips and Daddy's leather belt. Stacy didn't grow up ...

In Ukraine, three bodies are found at the base of a Kherson hotel. One is dead, one is dying, and one has post trauma amnesia. The police are trying to put the pieces of the jigsaw together to solve the mystery, as is the amnesiac in a hospital bed. They think that the survivor may be an undercover UK vice officer, Stephen Smith, working on a case, but he isn’t convinced. Plagued by a familiar nagging inner voice, he opens a suitcase full of women’s clothes to discover the truth. Back in black, and determined to have one final fling? ‘Tell me, who do you love?’ The body count is set...

"Listening to a rollicking adventure mystery narrated well is a delight, and that's the case with this newest installment in the Enola Holmes series. Payne brings the wry humor, boisterous personality, and incomparable wit of Enola to life so well that listeners will wish they could join her for...

This training manual for patients who have a trauma-related dissociative disorder includes short educational pieces, homework sheets, and exercises that address ways in which dissociation interferes with essential emotional and life skills, and support inner communication and collaboration with dissociative parts of the personality.

In Beyond Borderline, two internationally acclaimed experts on BPD - including Perry Hoffman, cofounder and president of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder - team up to present a rare glimpse into the lives and recovery of people affected by BPD. This powerful compilation of stories reveals the deeply personal, firsthand perspectives of people who suffer with BPD, explores the numerous ways in which this disorder has affected their lives, and outlines the most debilitating and misunderstood symptoms of BPD (the most tragic being suicide).

What Part of You Wants to Transform Others? This book shares specific strategies for parts work, ego state theory, and internal family systems (IFS). If you have a counseling or psychotherapy background, you will recognize the idea of parts work, ego state theory, and IFS as being a component of some of the work you have already done. You will be able to increase your skills, so when you have a client in your office, you can use the concepts from this book to directly impact them. In addition to the idea of parts work being a core of psychotherapy, it has also long been a core technique in ...

When you're heartbroken, it lies beneath everything that you do. It's in all of who you are. Foreshadows who you'll be. It hides underneath your smile, rests between your laugh, revels in your tears and taunts your every thought. You wish it away but are too terrified to let it go. When Cal first disappeared, I swore my heart had broken, and before all of this is over, I swear it will shatter into pieces.

Some secrets fester. Some lies kill. And some truths are too horrifying to face. Claire and Raye were inseparable, bound by childhood promises and an unbreakable sisterly bond—until Claire fell in love. Theodore James should have been her happily ever after, but his family whispered curses, and his presence drove an irreversible wedge between the sisters. Then, the deaths began. A brutal car crash. A gruesome accident. A poisoning too precise to be chance. As fear grips their small town, Claire stumbles upon a chilling clue—one that ties the murders to someone she loves. But when she ...

She's a criminal psychologist hunting a serial killer. He's the perfect boyfriend. She's the loyal best friend. None of them are who they appear to be. Dr. Emma Walters has spent her career getting inside the minds of killers. Now someone is getting inside hers. As bodies pile up across Chicago—all women who died believing they'd found love—Emma becomes obsessed with solving the case. But her judgment is compromised by Alex Thornton, the charming artist who seems too good to be true, and her growing paranoia that Claire, her closest friend, is hiding something crucial. The deeper Emma ...

As a young adult, years after her physical abuse has ended, Maggie Walters struggles with an unpredictable temper and socially difficult behaviour. After several false starts she finds a therapist who she trusts, just enough, to start talking about the childhood locked away behind the anger and isolation she has learnt to live with. Eventually she is diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder, MPD (now known as Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID). Gradually, she understands.

“Discover the Hidden Gender Differences in Dissociative Identity Disorder That Transform Treatment Outcomes” Are you a mental health professional, therapist, or counselor seeking breakthrough insights into Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and multiple personality disorder? Do you want to understand why trauma recovery and therapeutic approaches must be tailored differently for men and women with DID? In "Dissociative Identity Disorder Differences: How Multiple Personalities, Alters, and Mental Health Changes The Lives of Men vs Women," mental health expert Morris Finney presents the...

Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It's his hallucinations who are mad. A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. However, to contain all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people - Stephen calls them aspects - to hold and manifest the information. Wherever he goes, he is joined by a team of imaginary experts to give advice, interpretation, and explanation. He uses them to solve problems...for a price. Then a company hires him to recover stolen property - a camera that can allegedly take pictures of the past....