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[person-salad.livejournal.com]

Hi. We're new to livejournal but the main one isn't. I found a really good book recommendation from another multiplicity group I'm in and we thought it would make a good first post to the community. You all might not agree that each book is a good recommendation but over all it's a pretty darned good list. More later!



Click on the picture to read about it on Amazon

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[crystalseraph.livejournal.com]

'Got Parts?"

I lol'd my arse off.

DISASSOCIATION, THE HIDDEN EPIDEMIC. Har xD

[lion-azure.livejournal.com]

I read the upper right hand one as "The Fuck". *lol*

[tej-agni.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

*lmao* It DOES look like that. The middle one in the second row from the bottom also vaguely looks like it could be read as "Got Farts." (Yay immature humour.)

[gryphons.livejournal.com]

the amongst ourselves book is pretty good.. one of the better/best ones we've ever run across.got parts.. Not so much.. if you look at the examples in amazon.. it looks like it might be worth something.. sadly.. toilet paper would have probably been a better investment.. others vary a lot in our opinions.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/books.html

Books

[susanacts.livejournal.com]

I'm currently reading I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, and I've read The DID Sourcebook, both from Amazon. I have the DVD of Sybil too. The list is interesting though, and I might pick up some others when I get the dollars and such worked out around here. Thanks for sharing the list! Another book that I have read and seen on TV (Oprah) was First Person Plural, the true events of Dr. Cameron West. Check it out...it's quite a read.

[seaclans.livejournal.com]

I liked "the Magic Daughter"

[forever-alone.livejournal.com]

We've read 10 of these books. I hated all of them except When Rabbit Howls and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.

[phen0type.livejournal.com]

Got Parts? Well, no, I haven't any; only friends, family and colleagues.
Haunted Self? There aren't any ghosts in my system.
I never promised you a rose garden? Well, I'm sure that some of us would prefer daisies anyway.

Richard
Fen Group
(feeling somewhat whimsical today)

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

You do realize that you've linked to a book that says persons sharing a body is impossible and doesn't exist, right?

" . . The most important thing to understand is that alter personalities are not people. They are not even personalities. That might seem obvious, but it is a truth one can lose sight of during therapy. It is probably impossible to construct a satisfactory definition of an alter personality... Alter personalities are highly stylized enactments of inner conflicts, drives, memories, and feelings. At the same time, they are dissociated packets of behavior developed for transaction with the outside world. There is only one person. The patient's conviction that there is more than one person in her is a dissociative delusion, and should not be compounded by a folie a deux on the part of the therapist."

Colin A. Ross, in Dissociative Identity Disorder: Diagnosis, Clinical Features, and Treatment of Multiple Personality

Well, if he's gonna be that way about it...
http://www.astraeasweb.net/story/rots.html

[forever-alone.livejournal.com]

"The most important thing to understand is that alter personalities are not people. They are not even personalities."


Those were the very lines that made us literally throw the book across the room.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

"This is not a book that should be put down lightly. It should be thrown with great force." - Dorothy Parker

[forever-alone.livejournal.com]

But if I'm just a figment of my own imagination, how can I possibly throw a book? I guess I must've made it up. Darn those pesky dissociative delusions. :(

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

I read 'Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicty'. It irritated me for most of its length. I didn't expect a psychology book to deal with healthy multiplicity, but the multiplicity it did deal with wasn't the MPD/DID I have experienced, either.

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

What was it like, just out of curiosity? It doesn't sound like the kind of multiplicity book I'd be interested in reading, but... I like to collect as much information and reviews as possible on the ones that do exist out there. It's kind of a perseveration of mine.

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the late response, we've been away.

It's a collection of essays on various aspects of DID. It was definitely DID and not MPD it dealt with. It irritated me because it allowed no possibility for memory sharing, co-consciousness, etc, except possibly after long therapy. Unfortunately I didn't note down what I thought as I went along, so I can't now remember any details.

[rabbittspeaks.livejournal.com]

i picked my name from 'when rabbit howls.' i'm not little as such. and i'm not the center. i just fancied the name. well, i am the center of the abuse, but i am also the only split b/c of the abuse. so it's more like "only" than "center."
rabbitt chase (with two t's)

[krystale.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend "Multiple Personality Disorder from the Inside Out." It's from Sidran Press. It's got something for everyone. It made me cry to see I wasn't alone. I still source it for people, and we've made our own glossary in the back.