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Lillian

Author : Frank Alabiso, PH D
Publisher : Austin Macauley
ISBN 13 : 9781649792051
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Lillian written by Frank Alabiso, PH D and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of us, the varied parts of our personalities are woven together and unified by our memories. But what happens when we have no memories? What happens when the components of memory (facts, feelings, and body states) are split apart and no longer relate to each other? When this story began more than 40 years ago, doctors and psychiatrists were mystified by patients with more than one personality. The diagnosis at the time was Multiple Personality Disorder. Lillian was afflicted with this condition owing to severe abuse during her childhood. Her mind held each trauma separately. Each personality took over her body, developing a life and personality of its own. Lillian's aunt, Jean, became friends with 22 personalities. She played hide and seek with four-year-old Mary, taught five-year-old Amy to write, shopped for undergarments with Robin Jean, and communicated endlessly with each of the others. In the process, each personality revealed its beginnings. Over time, each personality revealed its own memories of their trauma and eventually became integrated. This is an exquisite and beautifully written story of poverty, transgenerational abuse, mental illness, and the healing power of love, science, and spirituality. As one reader puts it: "You will laugh, cry, turn away and come back again to its compelling truth."

Lillian: A True Story of Multiple Personality Disorder

Author : Frank Alabiso, Ph.D.
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1649792069
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Lillian: A True Story of Multiple Personality Disorder written by Frank Alabiso, Ph.D. and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of us, the varied parts of our personalities are woven together and unified by our memories. But what happens when we have no memories? What happens when the components of memory (facts, feelings, and body states) are split apart and no longer relate to each other? When this story began more than 40 years ago, doctors and psychiatrists were mystified by patients with more than one personality. The diagnosis at the time was Multiple Personality Disorder. Lillian was afflicted with this condition owing to severe abuse during her childhood. Her mind held each trauma separately. Each personality took over her body, developing a life and personality of its own. Lillian’s aunt, Jean, became friends with 22 personalities. She played hide and seek with four-year-old Mary, taught five-year-old Amy to write, shopped for undergarments with Robin Jean, and communicated endlessly with each of the others. In the process, each personality revealed its beginnings. Over time, each personality revealed its own memories of their trauma and eventually became integrated. This is an exquisite and beautifully written story of poverty, transgenerational abuse, mental illness, and the healing power of love, science, and spirituality. As one reader puts it: “You will laugh, cry, turn away and come back again to its compelling truth.”

We Are Annora

Author : P.S. Marrow
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453580980
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book We Are Annora written by P.S. Marrow and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marital and parental responsibilities can be enough of a challenge for two working adults. Add in one spouse who has intensifying bouts of amnesia and you have a recipe for disaster. But disaster is not an option for Annora. She grew up in an orphanage and so the preservation of her precious family was her number one commitment. But that commitment was threatened when, during marital counseling, Annoras therapist began to recognize even more unusual and abnormal behaviors in her. Annora was subsequently diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, also known as Multiple Personality Disorder. But that wouldnt stop Annora from declaring her sanity to her husband and begging him to fi nd them a new therapist. We Are Annora is a story about the human will to survive amidst the darkness which lies deep within despondency and a powerful mental disorder. Marrows choice of first-person narrative successfully pulls the reader into this page-turning true story which so richly demonstrates the human will to survive amidst a crippling disorder that is still so misunderstood. Throughout the pages of this book, struggles of fear and hope, love and hate, confusion and utter clarity give the reader an insider perspective of the challenges faced by traumatized people with DID. Hence, the reader acquires a better understanding of the difficulties suffered by multiples and the potential for true healing.

A Life in Pieces

Author : Richard K. Baer
Publisher : Vermillion
ISBN 13 : 9780091922108
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book A Life in Pieces written by Richard K. Baer and published by Vermillion. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable story of unimaginable suffering and ultimate recovery, 'A Life in Pieces' is the account of life with Multiple Personality Disorder written by the treating psychiatrist.

Sybil Exposed

Author : Debbie Nathan
Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1921844493
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Sybil Exposed written by Debbie Nathan and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling true story of the three women – a Manhattan psychiatrist, a glamorous magazine writer, and a troubled young woman – behind the psychology case that shook the world. In the 1950s, Sybil Dorsett, a young woman from a tiny Midwest town, was diagnosed with a new psychiatric condition – multiple personality disorder. Sybil was believed to have 16 separate personalities living within her: from aspiring carpenter Mike to intensely religious Nancy; from impertinent schoolgirls Peggy Lou and Peggy Ann to depressed grandmother Mary; from whimpering toddler Ruthie to the bookish, highly critical Clara. When Flora Rheta Schreiber wrote about the case in her 1973 book Sybil, it immediately became a bestseller. Soon the Sybil case was a pop-culture phenomenon, and it grew to near-mythic proportions. The case became a touchstone for issues surrounding identity and sexuality, influencing the way millions of people saw their bodies, relationships, and psyches. And it gave rise to a new wave of diagnoses: before Sybil, there had been fewer than 200 known cases of multiple personality disorder in history; afterwards, approximately 40,000 people were diagnosed in just a few years. In this groundbreaking book, journalist Debbie Nathan reveals, for the first time, that the Sybil case was an elaborate fraud – albeit one that the perpetrators may have half-believed. Nathan follows an enormous trail of papers, records, photos, and tapes to show that what really powered the legend was a trio of women who together spun their story into bestseller gold. The result is an intensely fascinating portrait of a pop-culture phenomenon and the complex psychological factors that primed the world to receive it. 'A delicious, hiding-in plain-sight historical saga . . . compulsively readable.' – Sheila Weller 'Debbie Nathan's fine, insistent mind will stop at nothing to get to the truth behind Sybil.' – Susie Bright

Becoming One

Author : Sarah E. Olson
Publisher : Trilogy Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780962387982
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Becoming One written by Sarah E. Olson and published by Trilogy Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books about Multiple Personality Disorder have usually been written by mental health professionals as texts or case studies. Now, in Becoming One, author Sarah Olson has allowed us the rare privilege of entering her internal world as she journeys 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 possible means of reconciliation and family healing.Olson argues that Multiple Personality Disorder (recently re-christened Dissociative Identity Disorder), rather than being a form of insanity as is popularly believed, is actually a brilliant coping mechanism relied upon in the most desperate of circumstances. It is nearly universally associated with severe trauma suffered by very young children and reveals a highly creative, terrified young mind doing whatever needs to be done to survive in an untenable world. The author's courage and generosity in candidly sharing her remarkable experiences afford an invaluable understanding of the effects of severe childhood abuse, and provides important insights into the world of dissociation.Through selected journal writings, letters, and transcripts of recorded therapy sessions, she highlights the role psychotherapy played in her recovery. Here is at once a highly personal look into an individual life, the dynamics of a troubled family, and the healing power of the therapeuticprocess.

Why, Mommy, Why?

Author : Jody Thomas
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781466378124
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book Why, Mommy, Why? written by Jody Thomas and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of Multiple Personality Disorder and recovery.... This autobiography is the inspiring true story of recovery from severe childhood abuse. When Jody Thomas is diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder (also known as Dissociative Identity Disorder) at age 33, she remembers nothing about the childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse she endured. On the difficult road to recovery, Jody will now have to experience all the horrible memories her alters have protected her from remembering her entire adult life. MPD/DID is the defense mechanism Jody's mind developed which allowed her to surviving extreme childhood abuse, and which made her recovery possible later in life. Jody's healing process explores the extreme defenses we are capable of developing to survive, and how, later, these same defenses begin to work against us. Her heart-warming autobiography explores complex issues regarding the damage that can be done to a child's self-perception and how the adult that child develops into navigates the outside world. Therapy 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 emotional journey to recovery, share her struggle her triumphs as her many tears finally lead to joy. Why, Mommy, Why? is a compelling read for both the general public and professionals in the psychology field, offering a patient's perspective on dissociative disorders and the integration process of alter personalities. Art Therapy is one of the methodologies used during treatment, and the original sketches made by Jody are included in the book, which offer even more visual insight into the therapeutic process.

The Flock

Author : Joan Frances Casey
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1101969180
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Flock written by Joan Frances Casey and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking first-person account of successful recovery from dissociative identity disorder, now featuring a new preface by the author When Joan Frances Casey, a married twenty-six-year-old graduate student, “awoke” on the ledge of a building ready to jump, it wasn’t the first time she couldn’t explain her whereabouts. Soon after, Lynn Wilson, an experienced psychiatric social worker, diagnosed Joan with multiple personality disorder. She prescribed a radical program of reparenting therapy to individually treat her patient’s twenty-four separate personalities. As Lynn came to know Joan’s distinct selves—Josie, the self-destructive toddler; Rusty, the motherless boy; Renee, the people pleaser—she uncovered a pattern of emotional and physical abuse that had nearly consumed a remarkable young woman. Praise for The Flock “A testimony to [Casey’s] courage and the dedication of her therapist, who believed that a profoundly fragmented self has the capacity to heal within a loving therapeutic relationship.”—The New York Times Book Review “Absolutely mesmerizing . . . the first coherent autobiographical study of its kind.”—The Detroit News “A compelling psychological odyssey offering unique insights into a nightmare world.”—Kirkus Reviews “Extraordinary . . . deftly told and studded with striking images.”—Publishers Weekly

Ellevie

Author : Marcelle Evie Guy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939288608
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book Ellevie written by Marcelle Evie Guy and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Because there is a little girl in me...and she wants to take over." With these startling words, uttered to her therapist in explanation for her desperate plea to be hospitalized-to be somewhere "safe"-Marcelle Guy begins the compelling first-person account of her life ELLEVIE: A True Story of Repressed Memories and Multiple Personality Disorder. Marcelle is forty-two when it strikes her that the mystifying vision she has carried with her for her entire adult life-the vision of a seven- year-old girl, a stranger to Marcelle, strapped to a table, lifeless, being attended to by a nun-is no stranger at all. The little girl in the vision is her, carrying with her a terrifying secret, a memory long hidden. Now, the little girl comes to life. Soon, another girl will appear. Both personalities threaten Marcelle's control over her life and she becomes plagued by near-constant anxiety. In the literary tradition of Styron's DARKNESS VISIBLE or Kaysen's GIRL, INTERRUPTED, Marcelle Guy conveys her harrowing story openly, honestly, and courageously. How will she cope with the two intruders from her past, and the memory of the horrifying childhood incident they are bringing with them?

Katherine, It's Time

Author : Kit Castle
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Katherine, It's Time written by Kit Castle and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Tale of Possession

Author : Sophia Adare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781425951368
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book A Tale of Possession written by Sophia Adare and published by . This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 2004, a young nineteen year old woman named Sophia Door decides to embark upon automatic writing - a craft similar to the ouija board. Little does she know that she is about to change her life forever, for worse. After two weeks of writing, Sophia begins to hear voices in her head, known in schizophrenia as auditory hallucinations. This leads to the appearance if two very distinct alter personalities; a man who goes by the name of Lucifer and a small boy named Michael. And now Sophia is about to begin a battle for her sanity, her life and her soul.

My 44 Wives

Author : George Arthur Lareau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781885570178
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book My 44 Wives written by George Arthur Lareau and published by . This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revealing personal journal exposes the emotional tribulations of a man coping with the extremes of his wife's MPD behaviors. Rebecca was eventually diagnosed not only as a victim of multiple personality disorder, but as the host for 44 separate personalities, probably a record. This journal is not pleasant reading. It is the shocking and heart-wrenching first-hand account of a man driven nearly to madness by his dedication to and love for his wife. Rebecca had been in mental hospitals five times when she met George, and had been given five different diagnoses, none of which was multiple personality disorder. She had not finished high school, had divorced after giving her son up for adoption, and was living in a half-way house. It was only after their first year-and-a-half together that they suspected what her problem actually was, and her diagnosis by the state's leading expert at Massachusetts General Hospital made it a devastating reality. For seven years, George Arthur Lareau battled between his deep love for Rebecca and the tortuous experiences he suffered from their tumultuous relationship.

I Am We

Author : Christine Pattillo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989940115
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book I Am We written by Christine Pattillo and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people have secrets they are fearful to share with those who love them. Christine Pattillo was one of those people, except instead of just one secret, she had many. As long as Christine can remember, she has lived with Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). But for most of her life, she kept this secret hidden from everyone around her, including her husband. It wasnOCOt until the age of forty-one and after ten years of counseling that she finally managed to utter the seven most difficult words of her life: There is more than one of me. Now, several years later, she is ready to share her story with the rest of the world. In her fascinating memoir, I Am WE: Our Lives with Multiple Personalities, Christine Pattillo shares her incredible journey of life with MPD. Readers will come to know ChristineOCOs alternate personalities as the unique and extraordinary individuals they are. a"

We Are Annora

Author : P. S. Marrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781453580967
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book We Are Annora written by P. S. Marrow and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marital and parental responsibilities can be enough of a challenge for two working adults. Add in one spouse who has intensifying bouts of amnesia and you have a recipe for disaster. But disaster is not an option for Annora. She grew up in an orphanage and so the preservation of her precious family was her number one commitment. But that commitment was threatened when, during marital counseling, Annora's therapist began to recognize even more unusual and abnormal behaviors in her. Annora was subsequently diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, also known as Multiple Personality Disorder. But that wouldn't stop Annora from declaring her sanity to her husband and begging him to fi nd them a new therapist. We Are Annora is a story about the human will to survive amidst the darkness which lies deep within despondency and a powerful mental disorder. Marrow's choice of first-person narrative successfully pulls the reader into this page-turning true story which so richly demonstrates the human will to survive amidst a crippling disorder that is still so misunderstood. Throughout the pages of this book, struggles of fear and hope, love and hate, confusion and utter clarity give the reader an "insider" perspective of the challenges faced by traumatized people with DID. Hence, the reader acquires a better understanding of the difficulties suffered by multiples and the potential for true healing.

Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties

Author : Foster Hirsch
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307958930
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties written by Foster Hirsch and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system—set against the boom of the post–World War II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts Hollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry both set conventions and broke norms and traditions—from Cinerama, CinemaScope, and VistaVision to the epic film and lavish musical. It was a decade that saw the rise of the anti-hero; the smoldering, the hidden, and the unspoken; teenagers gone wild in the streets; the sacred and the profane; the revolution of the Method; the socially conscious; the implosion of the studios; the end of the production code; and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher: the “small screen” television. Here is Eisenhower’s America—seemingly complacent, conformity-ridden revealed in Vincente Minnelli’s Father of the Bride, Walt Disney’s Cinderella, and Brigadoon, among others. And here is its darkening, resonant landscape, beset by conflict, discontent, and anxiety (The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Asphalt Jungle, A Place in the Sun, Touch of Evil, It Came From Outer Space) . . . an America on the verge of cultural, political and sexual revolt, busting up and breaking out (East of Eden, From Here to Eternity, On the Waterfront, Sweet Smell of Success, The Wild One, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Jailhouse Rock). An important, riveting look at our nation at its peak as a world power and at the political, cultural, sexual upheavals it endured, reflected and explored in the quintessential American art form.

Splintered

Author : Luwanda Cheney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Splintered written by Luwanda Cheney and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Way Back

Author : Donna Mae Rose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781432706050
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Way Back written by Donna Mae Rose and published by . This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MPD: From the viewpoint of the patient The Way Back is a true story. It's the tremendous victory from the mental illness known as Multiple Personality Disorder. MPD is a strange phenomenon; however, you will read that anyone facing any unwanted circumstance can rise above the fears and difficulty to their desired goal. Those in the field of psychology will most certainly find it to be of great interest. The Way Back is unique in that it is written by a person diagnosed with MPD. In the maze of "the many," as the obstacles of denial, anger, humiliation, shame, fear and hopelessness were removed the integration began. Along the way of the healing process, slowly leaving the old way of thinking in order to embrace the new was the path to being fully restored. Life is about conquering that which we choose to conquer. The greatest blessing of all was that the journey took me right into my Divine Nature.