Download or read book Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder written by Xenia Bowlby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the threads that make up the campaign for people with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). It is based on a Campaign Day for survivors organised by the Paracelsus Trust to raise awareness of DID.
Download or read book Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder written by Xenia Bowlby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the product of a Campaign Day organised by the Paracelsus Trust to raise awareness of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). The Campaign Day brought people together, enabling individuals to tell their story, and allowed all of those involved to recognise the progress that has been made in recognition of the condition, which has long been either ignored or misunderstood, and the possibilities for the future. As this was a profoundly moving experience, it was decided to put the presentations into a book, which recounts some painful personal experiences and some ideas for ways forward, always recognising the pain of the condition and the abuse that precedes it. The Paracelsus Trust is a Charity which exists to support people with DID who are in receipt of services from the Clinic for Dissociative Studies.
Download or read book Hoax and Reality written by August Piper and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) has become a fad. It was once so uncommon that investigators had discovered barely 200 cases by 1980. No longer. After that year, the number of cases exploded as therapist after therapist began to report seeing dozens, scores, hundreds of MPD patients. However, Dr. August Piper asserts that the surge in MPD cases is largely generated by the doctors themselves, by their over-inclusive diagnostic criteria and self-fulfilling therapeutic techniques.
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 The Sum of My Parts written by Olga Trujillo and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the first day of kindergarten, Olga Trujillo had already survived years of abuse and violent rape at the hands of her tyrannical father. Over the next ten years, she would develop the ability to numb herself to the constant abuse by splitting into distinct mental “parts.” Dissociative identity disorder (DID) had begun to take hold, protecting Olga’s mind from the tragic realities of her childhood. In The Sum of My Parts, Olga reveals her life story for the first time, chronicling her heroic journey from survivor to advocate and her remarkable recovery from DID. Formerly known as multiple personality disorder, DID is defined by the presence of two or more identities. In this riveting story, Olga struggles to unearth memories from her childhood, and parallel identities—Olga at five years old, Olga at thirteen—come forth and demand to be healed. This brave, unforgettable memoir charts the author’s triumph over the most devastating conditions and will inspire anyone whose life has been affected by trauma.
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 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 Our House Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder written by Lindsay Schofield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our House tells the story of a child who has experienced something that children should never have to experience. It introduces the reader to the people who arrived to help them cope with the bad things, in the house that they all share. Accompanied by beautiful and gentle illustrations, the story takes a non-threatening approach to demystify dissociative identity disorder, using the metaphor of a house to explain what it is and how it develops. Our House can be read by individuals, or used as a treatment tool to stimulate discussion, and is suitable for all ages. It includes additional guidance which explains the metaphor in depth, as well as advice regarding dissociative disorders and signposts to further help for both individuals and professionals. Bringing clarity to a complex issue, this is an invaluable resource for survivors of trauma and for those who support them, counsellors, psychologists, social care workers and other professionals, as well as family and friends. An accompanying guidebook is also available, offering further information, resources and activities, and page-by-page insights into illustrations from the picture book. Both books can be purchased as a set.
Download or read book Dissociative Identity Disorder written by Hassaan Tohid and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains new evidence and more ideas for treatment and management of dissociative identity disorder (DID). It is written from the standpoint of an expert in the field for other professionals that deal with or are interested in DID. Chapters are divided into 4 parts. Part 1 acts as an introduction to understanding dissociative identity disorder, such its history, the different types of the disorder, and its portrayal in popular culture. The chapters in this part cover multiple personality disorder, theories, and epidemiology of the disease. Part 2 discusses the pathology and neuroscience of the disease. The comorbidities related to the disorder will be explained, such as PTSD, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and more. This part concludes with the potential causes of dissociative identity disorder, which ties into the previously mentioned comorbidities throughout this part. Supplementing the aforementioned topics, Part 3 discusses management of the disease. The chapters will cover modern psychiatry, diagnosis, and treatment options. Drug treatment and psychotherapy are some examples of the treatment options available. The authors share their experiences and perspectives of managing DID, including clinical trials and recovery. Finally, Part 4 discusses the sociology of DID, such as potential drug abuse, social media presence, and the difficulties that psychiatrists face in diagnosing the disease. This part provides advice for clinicians and healthcare providers by sharing different perspectives from psychiatrists that encounter the disease. Written by experts in the field, Dissociative Identity Disorder serves as a valuable resource for psychiatrists and clinicians seeking to understand, treat, and manage the disease.
Download or read book Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors written by Janina Fisher and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors integrates a neurobiologically informed understanding of trauma, dissociation, and attachment with a practical approach to treatment, all communicated in straightforward language accessible to both client and therapist. Readers will be exposed to a model that emphasizes "resolution"—a transformation in the relationship to one’s self, replacing shame, self-loathing, and assumptions of guilt with compassionate acceptance. Its unique interventions have been adapted from a number of cutting-edge therapeutic approaches, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, mindfulness-based therapies, and clinical hypnosis. Readers will close the pages of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors with a solid grasp of therapeutic approaches to traumatic attachment, working with undiagnosed dissociative symptoms and disorders, integrating "right brain-to-right brain" treatment methods, and much more. Most of all, they will come away with tools for helping clients create an internal sense of safety and compassionate connection to even their most dis-owned selves.
Download or read book Dissociative Identity Disorder written by Edilma Angel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-04 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something that happened in real life and that changed my perception of reality. To feel those eyes looking at me... that presence, it gave me the goosebumps. It seems scary, but that is how it happened: Jasmine, besides psychosis, suffered from Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personalities). Traditional medicine treats the physical or mental sickness and does not believe in ghosts, elves, spirits or discarnate entities. Any problem that results in a change of behavior is catalogued as a mental disorder. And so... why does the personality change so disparately? How come, in such a brief period of time, a body that is initially healthy, turns into a sick body instantaneously or vice versa? How can such biological changes just emerge from the nothing? I feel such deep love for the people that have been confined into mental institutions. After having had this experience, I know they can heal.
Download or read book Dissociative Identity Disorder in a Nutshell written by Shirley J. Davis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-05 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissociative identity Disorder in a Nutshell is a book dealing with the realities of living with a dissociative disorder without using sensationalism but relying on as many facts as possible. Written by a person who has been through 27 years of intensive therapy to recover from DID the book talks about recovery, integration and finally leaving therapy for good, some topic not discussed at length in other works of its this type.
Download or read book The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook written by Deborah Bray Haddock and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2001-08-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, a book that addresses your concerns about DID From Eve to Sybil to Truddi Chase, the media have long chronicled the lives of people with dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder. The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook serves as a much-needed bridge for communication between the dissociative individual and therapists, family, and friends who also have to learn to deal with the effects of this truly astonishing disorder.
Download or read book Intensive Psychotherapy for Persistent Dissociative Processes The Fear of Feeling Real Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology written by Richard A. Chefetz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation's (ISSTD) Pierre Janet Writing Award, 2015. What really happens in dissociation. Dissociative processes have long burdened trauma survivors with the dilemma of longing to feel “real” at the same time as they desperately want to avoid the pain that comes with that healing—a dilemma that often presents particularly acute difficulties for healing professionals. Recent clinical and neurobiological research sheds some light into the dark corners of a mind undergoing persistent dissociation, but its integration into the practice of talking therapy has never, until now, been fully realized. Intensive Psychotherapy for Persistent Dissociative Processes brings readers into the consultation room, and into the minds of both patient and therapist, like no other work on the treatment of trauma and dissociation. Richard A. Chefetz marries neuroscientific sophistication with a wealth of extended case histories, following patients over several years and offering several verbatim session transcripts. His unpacking of the emotionally impactful experience of psychodynamic talking therapy is masterfully written, clearly accessible, and singularly thorough. From neurobiological foundations he builds a working understanding of dissociation and its clinical manifestations. Drawing on theories of self-states and their involvement in dissociative experiences, he demonstrates how to identify persistent dissociation and its related psychodynamic processes, including repetition compulsion and enactment. He then guides readers through the beginning stages of a treatment, with particular attention to the psychodynamics of emotion in both patient and therapist. The second half of the book immerses readers in emotionally challenging clinical processes, offering insight into the neurobiology of fear and depersonalization, as well as case examples detailing struggles with histories of incest, sexual addiction, severe negativity, negative therapeutic reactions, enactment, and object-coercive doubting. The narrative style of Chefetz’s casework is nearly novelistic, bringing to life the clinical setting and the struggles in both patient and therapist. The only mystery in this clinical exposition, as it explores several cases over a number of years, is what will happen next. In the depth of his examples and in continual, self-reflexive analysis of flaws in past treatments, Chefetz is both a generous guide and an expert storyteller. Intensive Psychotherapy for Persistent Dissociative Processes is unique in its ability to place readers in the consultation room of psychodynamic therapy. With an evidence-focused approach based in neurobiology and a bold clinical scope, it will be indispensible to new and experienced therapists alike as they grapple with the most intractable clinical obstacles.
Download or read book Our Collective Life written by J. D. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-03 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Collective Life is a non-fiction memoir of a person diagnosed with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder) is a condition in which two or more distinct identities, or personality states, are present in the one body. In our case we are the Collective, a group of 19 individuals (at the time of writing) sharing a body and trying to navigate our way through this one life. We each have unique personality traits and characteristics as well as differing thoughts, opinions and often even memories.To an outsider or a layperson, this book may sound like a work of fiction. However as crazy as it may sound, this is our life. The book is written primarily surrounding a period when Jo (the one born into the body) was struggling with severe depression, suicidal tendencies and guilt as well as the strong denial that is often characteristic of those with DID. Through the pages, the reader will understand more of the therapeutic process we all continue to undertake, as well as follow our journey as we learn more about Jo and ourselves.NB. It is widely accepted that DID invariably arises due to severe abuse/neglect in the early childhood. Whilst there is mention of episodes of abuse/trauma, Our Collective Life does NOT go into graphic detail about these incidents. There is however, swearing/cussing and graphic details of self-injury.
Download or read book Rebuilding Shattered Lives written by James A. Chu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rebuilding Shattered Lives, James A. Chu, MD, describes a proven approach to the assessment and treatment of post-traumatic and dissociative disorders developed at the Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Program at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Drawing on his extensive empirical research and more than a decade's clinical experience specializing in treating survivors of severe abuse, Dr. Chu also offers valuable insights into all the major areas of traumarelated symptomatology and provides the most detailed explanation of dissociative theory currently in print. And, with the help of numerous vignettes and case examples, he clearly illustrates common clinical dilemmas encountered when dealing with survivors of severe abuse as well as the most effective techniques for resolving them. Rebuilding Shattered Lives is an important working resource for mental health workers of all levels of experience. Throughout, the writing style is clear, and complex theories are explained with an emphasis on how they provide the conceptual basis for a rational, responsible, and safe approach to treatment.
Download or read book Got Parts written by A.T.W. and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insider's guide is filled with successful strategies, coping techniques, and helpful ways to increase the day-to-day functioning of adult survivors of Dissociative Identity Disorder in relationships, work, parenting, self-confidence, and self-care.
