Multiple Personalities

The general public is bewildered and fascinated by Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder. Through books, television and movies, a distorted view of DID is often presented. While it may make for good entertainment, it fails to truly present the depth and intensity of the inherent trauma. Outside the ordinary day-to-day life experience of most people, it is hard to understand. Ignoring past trauma simply will not help a patient.

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, ...

Dissociation 101: The go-to guide for understanding your dissociative disorder, breaking the stigma, and healing from trauma-related dissociation. Guided by psychologist Jamie Marich--a trauma-informed clinician living with a dissociative disorder herself--this book tells you everything you need...

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

She profiles killers for a living. She knows their patterns, their tells, their lies. Now one of them has found the perfect way inside her mind. Dr. Emma Walters has spent her career dissecting the psychology of murder from a safe distance: case files, crime-scene photographs, the cold logic of other people's cruelty. Then a string of women is found dead across Chicago, each of them certain she had finally found love. The killer courts his victims first. He learns them. And he is very, very good at it. Emma's new relationship with Alex, a charming artist who understands her better than ...

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 ...

Some secrets don’t fade with time. They rot. For decades, Genny Carter survived by staying silent. A violent husband. A house full of fear. Three daughters who learned too young that survival meant obedience. She told herself she was protecting them. She was wrong. Now in her sixties, Genny is ready to leave the man who destroyed them—but escape comes at a price. To get out, she’ll need the help of the very daughters she failed. And asking them means forcing the past back into the light. Each daughter coped in her own way. One built a flawless life to hide the damage. One chased ...

Who are you? When you start to explore this question, you find out how elusive it really is. Are you a physical body? A collection of experiences and memories? A partner to relationships? Each time you consider these aspects of yourself, you realize that there is much more to you than any of...

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 ...

Letters to Carol were written to make it easier for me to face my abusers and to move on with my life. Glenda Bixler is indeed right. This book is a non-fiction memoir, a true-life story of one woman's harrowing abuse. In elementary school, during the late 1960s, classmates called me "The Blob." My mother made fun of me. She imitated my looks for my siblings while she disassociated me from my real name. With the early loss of my beloved grandmother, I had no protection from my brother's abuse, which hurt me primarily on multiple levels. One day, inside my bedroom closet, I developed ...

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.

This is the 3rd Volume of the Engaging Multiple Personalities Series by David Yeung. This Volume is written directly to and for the DID/MPD community and its support network. It is practical advice for Living in Multiplicity. It addresses issues for people who are still looking for a therapist with experience treating DID, to begin to build a foundation for healing right now.

A true story of Multiple Personality Disorder and recoveryTherapy and treatment while recovering from abuse Competent psychotherapy has helped many people heal from trauma. Jody's account offers unique insight into the therapeutic process from the patient's perspective. Her ability to articulate the methods used is rare. Rarer still is her unique understanding of what lay at the heart of healing the emotional self and the "inner child." A heart-felt, inspiring book... Jody's struggle affects not only her, but her family, including her young son and husband. Readers will follow Jody on an ...

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.

This Volume 2 continues the discussions begun in Volume 1 concerning Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder. This Volume focuses on giving patients, support networks and therapists the foundation to heal and support healing of those with DID. Those who wish to learn about treating DID from a clinician's perspective will find guidance in both Volumes. The key point of understanding that ignoring past trauma simply will not help a patient. In his psychiatric practice, the author encountered a number of his patients' alters face-to-face.

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).

In a world where multiple minds share each body, a hidden secret threatens to shatter reality. Astrid thought she knew who she was – the dominant persona in a body shared with Grey, Poppy, and Wren. But when she stumbles on some mysterious old books, she fears there's more to their shared existence than anyone realized. As they settle into life at their new finishing college, fleeting glimpses of a shadowy figure, a strange locked door, and inexplicable gaps in time all point to something—or someone—beyond what they know. With truths quickly unraveling, Astrid and the others are ...

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.

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.

“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...