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Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living With Dissociative Identity Disorder 16 reviews
Tracy, Ph.D. Alderman, Karen Marshall
New Harbinger Publications, 1998
Understanding DID
I found this book to be very informative as well as helpful for myself as one who lives with DID/MPD....Tracy Alderman has written this book in such a way that you can actually understand what she is talking about. When you live with DID....and you try to find more information to help your loved ones and significant others to understand, often the books you find are so techinical. This book is ...
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The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook 21 reviews
Deborah Bray Haddock
McGraw-Hill, 2001
DID
This book has excellent information on this topic of dissociative disorders. Full of details easy for others to pick up on and completely understand. I have learned alot about this disorder and have been able to reach out to others also suffering in silence with this disorder. Well written with passion, concern and knowledge... Deborah Bray Haddock has really put her heart into writting this ...
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The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness 34 reviews
Martha Stout
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
Truly Inspiring and an Eye-Opener
This book was recommended to me, and I have never heard of dissociative states until I read this book. It is indeed an eye-opener for me.
"The Myth of Sanity" is one of the best analysis on dissociated mental states, forgotten memories of childhood or adult trauma, and multiple personality disorders. She brings the tales of dissociated states or multiple personality from her patients and her ...
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Healing the Heart of Trauma and Dissociation with EMDR and Ego State Therapy2 reviews
Ed Carol Forgash
Springer Publishing Company, 2007
A Must Read for Trauma Therapists
Working with patients with complex PTSD and dissociation is a challenging endeavor. Trauma therapists need to continually find resources to broaden their clinical thinking and strategies. EMDR has been research proven as the best approach to trauma treatment. Yet there are survivors of relational trauma who have been so badly damaged by the cruelty of others that they need additional approaches ...
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Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities42 reviews
Richard Baer
Crown, 2007
Fabulous book!
This is one of the most fascinating books I have read in my long career of reading. Many years ago I read Sybil and found it to be a page turner but this book is even more interesting and makes the unbelievable totally believable. Coming from the perspective of the psychiatrist treating the case gives the book a very unique style. I recommend it whole heartedly and hope the patient, Karen, ...
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The Dissociative Mind2 reviews
Elizabeth Howell
Routledge, 2008
fundamental shift
This book is succinct and well-written by a woman with a clear, keen mind and I enjoyed it immensely. Dissociation is a subject whose time has finally arrived. I appreciated her careful inclusion of other work that is being done in this area. I hope this book will become part of a fundamental shift in understanding the human personality and how it becomes disordered by trauma. If we have ...
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Clinical Neuroscience3 reviews
Kelly Lambert, Craig Howard Kinsley
Worth Publishers, 2004
A comprehensive and skillful examination of the field of Neuroscience
I read the text from cover to cover in the summer of 2005, three decades after my last college Psychology course, which makes me a complete neophyte in the field. Yet, it is clear from reading the book that its contribution to the understanding of the brain and its role in an individual's mental life - both normal and abnormal - is strong. As daunting may be the idea of launching into a ...
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Got Parts? An Insider's Guide to Managing Life Successfully with Dissociative Identity Disorder (New Horizons ...14 reviews
A. T. W.
Loving Healing Press, 2004
Helpful and clear for all.
This is a very clearly written book for the person with DID and for those who need a refresher or are new to DID. It is specific, positive, and affirming of the process and the need for therapy and support. I highly recommend it for therapists new to DID, and their DID clients.
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Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder 12 reviews
Herschel Walker
Touchstone, 2008
Herschel - Still Scoring Touchdowns!
People with DID or who have been educated about DID know the courage it took for Herschel to expose this mental disorder. I was diagnosed in 1993 and not only recieved very little support but was met with massive hostility from my family. I found the book to be inspiring and comforting, I can only pray that people will read this book with an open mind so that the public in general will show more ...
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The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization (Norton Series on ...6 reviews
Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis, ...
W. W. Norton, 2006
A Great Exposition of Understanding for Human Suffering
I must express extreme praise and admiration for the work and eventual understanding the authors of The Haunted Self have so relatively displayed in researching trauma related disorders and maladaptive behaviors. But the amazing thing is they were able to explain it in terms a sufferer can understand. This is not something that happens in research very often. I have been involved in research ...
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Rebuilding Shattered Lives: The Responsible Treatment of Complex Post-Traumatic and Dissociative Disorders5 reviews
James A. Chu
Wiley, 1998
Important for all clinicians, new and seasoned, to read
I found Dr.Chu's book to be quite comprehansive and "real" in his approach to working with complex dissociative disorders. His approach to the writing on this topic is both persoal and highly clinical in nature. I believe that all clinicians working with these complex clients should take the opportunity to read Dr. Chu's work as it allows one to actually think about her own treatment style ...
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Creativity and the Dissociative Patient: Puppets, Narrative and Art in the Treatment of Survivors of ...1 review
Lani Alaine Gerity
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999
A great book - read this!
I highly recommend this book to anyone who has the slightest interest in multiple personality disorder, art therapy, puppetry, psychiatry, object relations theory, story telling or mental illness in general. Through Jenny's story Gerity simultaneously gives a fascinating accurate account of patient care in a mental health facility while also educating the reader about the various ...
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Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Power of the Collective Heart1 review
Sarah Krakauer
Routledge, 2001
Excellent Resource
I am a psychotherapist who works with trauma survivors. The techniques outlined in Dr. Krakauer's book are excellent whether dissociation is a factor or not. I have used many of the techniques outlined in her book with various clients who experience extreme dissociation. Both my clients and I find the techniques gentle, insightful, and helpful. The book is written in a manner that made it easy to ...
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THE STRANGER IN THE MIRROR: Dissociation: The Hidden Epidemic22 reviews
Marlene Steinberg, Maxine Schnall
HarperCollins, 2000
Self-care is for everyone.
Everyone dissociates. When you drive home on auto pilot and don't remember the trip, when you walk into a room and can't remember what you went in there for, when someone is in an accident and goes into an altered state where they keep functioning even though injured until they're safe again, getting help and can experience the pain.
This books describes the author's diagnostic tool for ...
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The Bifurcation of the Self: The History and Theory of Dissociation and Its Disorders (Library of the History ... 2 reviews
Robert W. Rieber
Springer, 2006
Fascinating Overview, but . . .
This is a SUPERB and necessary overview of the case histories and theoretical work on (so-called?) "Multiple Personality Disorder."
And if you didn't have doubts about the validity of this fascinating and much-abused diagnosis before reading this book, you'll definitely have them afterward.
The inside details and tape transcripts pertaining to the "Sybil" case by themselves are worth the ...
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Exploring Dissociation: Definitions, Development and Cognitive Correlates (Journal of Trauma & Dissociation)
Anne P Deprince, Lisa Demarni Cromer
Informa HealthCare, 2006
A comprehensive, single-source guide to this growing field Exploring Dissociation provides a comprehensive overview of the development of this rapidly growing field, using classic psychological theories of attachment, learning and memory, attention, and intergeneration transmission of trauma to map out future directions for assessment, treatment, and research. The book's international contributors offer a mix of up-to-date ...
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Ego States: Theory and Therapy1 review
John G. Watkins, Helen H. Watkins
W. W. Norton & Company, 1997
Review of Ego States by Watkins & Watkins
I am taking a graduate course on Advanced Thereupitics Techniques. Though this book was recommended I consider to be a MUST READ book. Much basic understanding came from chapter two. It helped me understand Freud's cathexis and how it connects the conscious and unconscious mind. Cathexis is an energy that binds thoughts together. My metaphorical understanding is as follows: Tom (Conscious) and ...
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Traumatic Dissociation: Neurobiology and Treatment
American Psychiatric Publishing, 2007
Traumatic Dissociation: Neurobiology and Treatment offers an advanced introduction to this symptom, process, and pattern of personality organization seen in several trauma-related disorders, including acute stress disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and the dissociative disorders. The authors track the condition from its earliest historical conceptualization to its most recent neurobiological understanding to show that greater insight into ...
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Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder
Valerie Sinason
Routledge, 2002
Valerie Sinason's work in disability and abuse has consistently broken new ground in addressing subjects that many people have found initially hard to deal with. This new book covers the equally unexplored subject of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity explains the phenomenon of DID, the conflicting models of the human mind that have been found to try and understand it, the political conflict over the ...
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Dissociative Identity Disorder: Diagnosis, Clinical Features, and Treatment of Multiple Personality (Wiley ...8 reviews
Colin A. Ross
Wiley, 1996
Rich, thorough, and definitive
I've read several books on this affliction, and this is the most comprehensive book available for therapists. Ross has many years of experience and knows the traps and detours in treating dissociative-traumatized patients. He understands the critical, child-like gap in the patient's thinking, believing that he/she was in control and thus to blame for what happened. Letting go of guilt means ...
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