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Summary: Much needed
Review: Beautifully told, this well-written and fascinating book is a must for anyone interested in DID or really any of the illnesses that have been confused with that disorder for years. The writing is eloquent, yet the images of this book are striking (something like McCrae's "Bark of the Dogwood," or those in "Sybil.) If you have to choose one book on this illness, choose this one.
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Summary: Very sensitive to DID...
Review: I found this book to be comforting in a way that only people with DID/MPD can understand. Of course no one wants anyone to suffer with such an illness, however when you also suffer from the illness a book with this much sensitivity and courage is amazing. The author never needed to go into graphic detail of her abuse, that made this book safe for me. Her story gave me hope in my journey to recovery. I reccomend this book!!!
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Summary: MPD
Review: I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know what it is like to live with MPD. It's believeable and very well written. Many books on MPD are sensational, and extremely graffic. The emphasis is on the abuse events and patterns. This book is about the real life struggle of living with and recieving therapy for MPD. It is written in first person by a Multiple and her therapist. Both parties describe the difficulty in living with and treating MPD very accurately.It's a book you can reccomend to your friends that won't give them nightmares, but will certainly cause them to think and to learn. Thankyou Joan Casey and Lynn Wilson
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Summary: MPD
Review: I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know what it is like to live with MPD. It's believeable and very well written. Many books on MPD are sensational, and extremely graffic. The emphasis is on the abuse events and patterns. This book is about the real life struggle of living with and recieving therapy for MPD. It is written in first person by a Multiple and her therapist. Both parties describe the difficulty in living with and treating MPD very accurately. It's a book you can reccomend to your friends that won't give them nightmares, but will certainly cause them to think and to learn. Thankyou Joan Casey and Lynn Wilson
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Summary: The Flock
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I myself a multiple now have words to what we have been feeling and this book really explained and put into words things that we couldn't. I recomend this book for any multiple just be careful because some things are triggering, but it doesn't go into gory details of the abuse. Thank you for this book. I was really saddened at the end though at the loss. (Not any fault of the book)
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Summary: Lots of helpful stuff in this book
Review: In order to brush up on her knowledge of "MPD," the author of this book admits to renting and watching "The Three Faces of Eve" and "Sybill" on video. (Well, to be fair, she re-read the paperbacks too.) I used to get mad about this highly communicable form of hysteria, but I've changed my way of thinking. Much as lotteries are a tax on the stupid, MPD is a fine diversion for the terminally credulous and the drama-addicted.
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Summary: Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
Review: One of the best books I've read to understand how the multiple personality functions in everyday life. This book shows good insight for the person living with a multiple. The way it is written helps the reader to see both sides of the illness. It helps to see the practical way one person dealt with the effects on her life as well as the effects on the life of the one who is a multiple personality. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Much needed
Review: The Flock is one of many books that I have read documenting the cases of multiples, and I find it truly fascinating the issues that this book deals with. It makes one open one's mind up to the possibility of murmuring voices deep in one's head at night, and shared consciousness. Having the book written from the perspective of an integrated former multiple is very helpful in understanding the emotions involved with the disorder, and the interjected clinical diary entries by the therapist treating Joan Frances Casey (the author and subject of the book) provide a theraputic and objective view. Don't be fooled by the book's somewhat ambiguous and slow beginning, by about page 100 it had me walking into people while reading it in hallways. I greatly recommend this intriguing, and sometimes heart-wrenching book. In addition, I would recommend "The Minds of Billy Milligan," by Daniel Keyes (the author of "Flowers For Algernon") if you desire a different view, involving an unintegrated individual.
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Summary: Opens one's mind
Review: The Flock is one of many books that I have read documenting the cases of multiples, and I find it truly fascinating the issues that this book deals with. It makes one open one's mind up to the possibility of murmuring voices deep in one's head at night, and shared consciousness. Having the book written from the perspective of an integrated former multiple is very helpful in understanding the emotions involved with the disorder, and the interjected clinical diary entries by the therapist treating Joan Frances Casey (the author and subject of the book) provide a theraputic and objective view. Don't be fooled by the book's somewhat ambiguous and slow beginning, by about page 100 it had me walking into people while reading it in hallways. I greatly recommend this intriguing, and sometimes heart-wrenching book. In addition, I would recommend "The Minds of Billy Milligan," by Daniel Keyes (the author of "Flowers For Algernon") if you desire a different view, involving an unintegrated individual.
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Summary: Fascinating and truly believable
Review: This book has been criticized (in the MPD community) as being unrealistic in the context of The Flock's treatment (essentially she was reparented). Nonetheless I think it's valuable to read for many reasons. Besides, who wouldn't want to be reparented? (sure seems to work quicker!) The author's choice of de-emphasizing the abuse descriptions (there are no graphic descriptions of abuse in this book) provides us with the rare opportunity to focus on the treatment and the growth of the Flock over time. I also very much appreciated the less than optimal description of the integrated person - Joan Casey needed post-integration therapy to deal with some of your run of the mill issues of self-worth and destructive relationship patterns. (This is very real life! Integration is usually not the END and you live happily ever after. I was very happy to see this discussed and resolved so favorably in the end.)
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