Download or read book Coming Present Living with Multiple Personality Disorder Dissociative Identity Disorder and How My Faith Helped Heal Me written by Caroline Lighthouse and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caroline was the victim of repeated childhood sexual abuse and cultivated a life of secrecy to avoid explaining her loss of time, body memories, and post-traumatic stress symptoms, fearful that psychiatrists would lock her up and throw away the key. Eventually, she found a Christian therapist and began her healing journey. --
Download or read book Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM 5 written by American Psychiatric Association and published by American Psychiatric Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mental disorders diagnostic and statistical manual written by Committee on Nomenclature and Statistics American Psychiatric Association and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Looking Inside written by Judy Castelli and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking Inside gives the reader an intimate peek into one woman's incredible journey with multiple personalities. In this amazing book, Judy Castelli shares her delightful journal drawings and poetic prose. Castelli learned at age forty-four that she has multiple personality disorder. Determined to move beyond a lifetime of mental hospitals and internal chaos, she used her journals to explore the complex system of personalities that share her body. Because she understood that words are sometimes not enough, she encouraged her alters to speak through art. The entries in Looking Inside are ideal to use as individual meditations and personal inspiration, and would also lend themselves to use within the context of group work with DID survivors. This book contains very appealing line drawings and text that come directly from Judy's journal entries. Readers may recognize many of their own thoughts and emotions in this book and can use it as a basis for their own therapeutic journaling. Each entry and drawing offers the reader a wonderful opportunity to explore individually or with others the common challenges of coping with trauma as well as the joy found in healing from it.
Download or read book Sybil Exposed written by Debbie Nathan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Debbie Nathan reveals the true story behind the famous case of Sybil, the woman with sixteen different personalities.
Download or read book I Am More Than One written by Jane Wegscheider Hyman and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2007 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I've lived this way and managed for all of my life. And I don't view it as dysfunctional, actually. I like the way that I am, and it works." --Lucy, 44, a social worker You can lead a fulfilled and productive life, even with the challenges of dissociative identity disorder. The women in "I Am More than One" are living proof that you can find new sources of strength through family and friends, build a rewarding, successful career, and still hold on to your own unique identity. Their stories are messages of hope and encouragement drawn from their real-life experiences as working women who have struggled, endured, and, ultimately, prevailed. You'll meet Samantha, a lawyer who learned that one part of her mind helped her earn her degree and launch her own business while other parts had no idea what was happening . . . Reba, a registered nurse with multiple personalities who negotiates with all of them to perform different everyday tasks more smoothly . . . Caroline, a busy grandmother and accountant who enjoys having part of her mind exclusively for work . . . and seven other strong, unforgettable women who are trying to live their lives to the fullest.
Download or read book All of Me written by Kim Noble and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a life spent trying to discern where you are, how you got there, who you're with, and what has happened. You lose large chunks of time; abruptly, you find yourself wearing another person's clothes, sitting in the driver's seat of a car you don't remember driving, or cleaning up a meal you can't recall eating. For Kim Noble, renowned artist and mother whose body plays host to over 20 distinct personalities, this is normal life. After many years in and out of mental institutions and various diagnoses that she knew instinctively to be wrong, in 1995 Noble was finally diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID). A condition typically prompted by severe abuse during childhood, DID is thought to be a creative way some minds splinter in order to cope with unbearable pain. Alternately taking possession of Noble's body are, among others, a scared little boy who speaks only Latin, an elective mute, a gay man, and an anorexic teenager. Then there is Patricia, the stable and loving now-dominant alter who was able to win back custody of Noble's daughter, Aimee. All of Me traces Noble's tumultuous and fragmented life from childhood onward, providing insight into the intersections between memory, mental illness, and creativity. It is by turns shocking, inspiring, sometimes funny, and deeply moving. Book jacket.
Download or read book A Fractured Mind written by Robert B. Oxnam and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989, Robert B. Oxnam, the successful China scholar and president of the Asia Society, faced up to what he thought was his biggest personal challenge: alcoholism. But this dependency masked a problem far more serious: Multiple Personality Disorder. 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. Jeffrey Smith, and entered a rehab center. It wasn't until 1990 during a session with Dr. Smith that the first of Oxnam's eleven alternate personalities--an angry young boy named Tommy--suddenly emerged. With Dr. Smith's help, Oxnam began the exhausting and fascinating process of uncovering his many personalities and the childhood trauma that caused his condition. This is the powerful and moving story of one person's struggle with this terrifying illness. The book includes an epilogue by Dr. Smith in which he describes Robert's case, the treatment, and the nature of multiple personality disorder. Robert's courage in facing his situation and overcoming his painful past makes for a dramatic and inspiring book.
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.
Download or read book Coming Present Living with Multiple Personality Disorder Dissociative Identity Disorder and How My Faith Helped Heal Me written by Caroline Lighthouse and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caroline was the victim of repeated childhood sexual abuse and cultivated a life of secrecy to avoid explaining her loss of time, body memories, and post-traumatic stress symptoms, fearful that psychiatrists would lock her up and throw away the key. Eventually, she found a Christian therapist and began her healing journey. --
Download or read book Engaging Multiple Personalities written by David Yeung and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In his psychiatric practice, the author encountered a number of his patients' alters face-to-face. He found that the most effective course of therapy was to engage them directly. Talking to alters is a strange, serious and ultimately compelling experience. They are not real according to our customary definitions, but neither are they false or fake. They are survivors of childhood abuse, present in shared flesh and blood. The author discusses the phenomenon of DID through case histories, and how it manifests clinically. Most important, he elucidates techniques necessary to help these traumatized patients heal. DID patients can successfully engage in and profit from therapy. By processing the impact of their past traumatic memory, they may reclaim their present.
Download or read book The Flock written by Joan Frances Casey and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1992-05-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joan Frances Casey and her therapist, Lynn Wilson, chronicle Joan's intense journey to healing from multiple personality disorder, describing her diagnosis, her diverse personalities, her discovery that she had been abused as a child, and the growth of her and Lynn's relationship from doctor-patient to mother-daughter.
Download or read book A Fractured Mind written by Robert B. Oxnam and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2006-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harrowing, insightful, and courageous account of a prominent man's struggle with multiple personalities Robert Oxnam was a high-profile, successful man: A renowned scholar and president of the Asia Society, he appeared frequently on television and traveled the world as a sought-after expert. But what the millions of people whod seen him didnt know -- what even those closest to him didnt know -- was that Oxnam suffered from multiple personality disorder. It was only after an intervention staged by family and friends, in response to frequent blackouts and episodic rages assumed to be alcohol-driven, that he sought treatment with Dr. Jeffery Smith; the first of his eleven personalities emerged in a session in 1990. After years of treatment, he has integrated them into three: Robert, Wanda, and Bobby, who take turns narrating this remarkable, unprecedented chronicle.
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"
Download or read book When Rabbit Howls written by Truddi Chase and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-04-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder reveals her harrowing journey from abuse to recovery in this #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography written by her own multiple personalities. Successful, happily married Truddi Chase began therapy hoping to find the reasons behind her extreme anxiety, mood swings, and periodic blackouts. What emerged from her sessions was terrifying: Truddi’s mind and body were inhabited by the Troops—ninety-two individual voices that emerged to shield her from her traumatizing childhood. For years the Troops created a world where she could hide from the pain of the ritualized sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her own stepfather—abuse that began when she was only two years old. It was a past that Truddi didn’t even know existed, until she and her therapist took a journey to where the nightmare began... Written by the Troops themselves, When Rabbit Howls is told by the very alter-egos who stayed with Truddi Chase, watched over her, and protected her. What they reveal is a spellbinding descent into a personal hell—and an ultimate, triumphant deliverance for the woman they became.
Download or read book Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality written by Logi Gunnarsson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As witnessed by recent films such as Fight Club and Identity, our culture is obsessed with multiple personality—a phenomenon raising intriguing questions about personal identity. This study offers both a full-fledged philosophical theory of personal identity and a systematic account of multiple personality. Gunnarsson combines the methods of analytic philosophy with close hermeneutic and phenomenological readings of cases from different fields, focusing on psychiatric and psychological treatises, self-help books, biographies, and fiction. He develops an original account of personal identity (the authorial correlate theory) and offers a provocative interpretation of multiple personality: in brief, "multiples" are right about the metaphysics but wrong about the facts.
Download or read book Our Voices written by Phd Lcmhc Green, Ma Ncc and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few conditions are less understood than dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder. Treated either as a topic for film entertainment or a subject for doctoral research, true-to-life stories of people living with DID are rare. Our Voices: Six Women with Multiple Personalities Talk about Life and Relationships in Their Midlife is just such a rarity. With their traumatic childhoods behind them, six women share how they've come to embrace the legacies of their past. Our Voices is a candid account of the hardships that people with DID face, from obtaining a correct diagnosis to convincing professionals and laypeople alike about the realities of this disorder. It also chronicles the stories of women who have built lives, careers, and relationships that are surprisingly hopeful-and normal. Their stories are framed by commentary from author and interviewer Elizabeth M.W.-B. Green, PhD, a mental health expert who has treated adult survivors of childhood abuse for thirty years. With grace and honesty, the women interviewed in this book encourage others diagnosed with DID and serve to demystify a rare disorder. Together, they send a message of resilience, ensuring that their voices-all their voices-are heard.
