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Summary: Powerfully Written!
Review: First Person Plural: My Life As A Muliple by Cameron West was powerfully written. It was a very moving first hand account of what it's like to have MPD/DID. I highly recoomend this book to anyone interested in learning about MPD/DID.
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Summary: The persistence of DENIAL...
Review: Until this book I hadn't really understood how powerful denial can be for multiples. I am a multiple. I've known and not known over and over again. I've doubted and explained away. This beautifully written book is a wonderful addition to the "multiple memoirs." I've read them all. Searching for familiarity, hoping for some shred of hope, some secret healing trick, and simply for COMPANY.I find it interesting that reviewers wished for less talk about "denial" and more about the author's life. Another wanted to hear about integration and resolution. I appreciate that this is a tall order and valued the "work in progress" view of MPD. Many of us don't resolve our conditions through integration. The book is so TRUE, about day-to-day life (even name brands), and about the condition. More "flamboyant" multiples have inspired stories because of their uncontrolled switching and blackouts. I've always feared this was the inevitable occurrence, and waited for the other shoe to drop. Cam's story was reassuring to me because he had complete amnesia until adulthood, and he remained co-conscious with his other selves. Truly every person with this disorder is unique. It's all about a child's need for survival and the creativity and power of the mind to assist. Cam and Rikki, thank you. For daring to risk exposing your lives you have helped and enriched others. May the criticisms roll off and the raves warm your hearts.
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Summary: I just couldn't put it down.
Review: I am a pretty tough customer, someone with a short attention span. So for me to read this book every chance I got speaks volumes. I saw Cameron West on a morning news program and rushed out that day to buy the book. From the moment I picked it up, I could not put it down. I even brought it work and read it during lunch. What a wonderful, amazing piece of writing. I am anxious to read it again from cover to cover. Several of the personalities are disturbing and cause you to keep the lights on at night, but I believe I am a more intelligent person having had the experience of reading -- and loving -- "First Person Plural."
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Summary: Not Wholly Convincing
Review: I'm a multiple, and while I realize the experience of every multiple will necessarily be unique, and the range of experiences are very wide, some of the stuff in this book just somehow didn't quite ring true to me. Maybe it was because events were condensed too much. For example, in the book, every time there was a switch, the author alleges that his body "shuddered"...as in "shudder, switch"...and I think there was even a "shudder, poof" in there. Neither my own experience nor other accounts I've read documents this sort of "clean" transition as happening all that consistently. I admire the author, and I believe him, but I think there are better and more convincing accounts. Try "The Magic Daughter" by Jane Phillips.
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: I bought this book after seeing Cameron West on Oprah. He was such an amazing man and I wanted to learn more about him and his disorder. So I got the book and it sat on my shelf for months and months. I thought it would really depress me if I read it so I put it off until my psychology class started discussing psychological disorders. I decided to dust it off and give it a try. Wow! The book totally blew me away! I was surprised to find that I was even laughing out loud at some of the things that Cam wrote. This book gave me a very good understanding of DID, Dissociative Identity Disorder. I could hardly out it down! The book reads very well and quickly. Yes, you'll learn a lot about the disorder and what effect it had on Cam's family, but you'll also learn that you have to face up to your problems of they will pile up around you. Don't let them sit by the wayside. Identify them now and deal with them. Cam is an amazing person and has a lot to teach us...about life.
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Summary: Wow
Review: a friend gave me this book last nite.. she had recommended i should read it.. i started it about 10 after she had left and jsut keep reading for hours. i finished it today. never before have i read a whole book in under a day.. i loved every word.. it makes you think.. cheak it out.. and 311!
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Summary: The "Spirit" Sparkles Through In This Book
Review: I've just finished reading this book for a "second time", and I know that I'll read it a third. The book lifts my spirit, makes me laugh, cry, and gives me the gift of graditude for the gifts in my life. Thank you to the West's for sharing a big part of themselves, to encourage and put spirit back into many lives.
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Summary: the truth about the "guys"
Review: This book was by all means one of the best things I have read. Cam West explains in an honest and open way about himself, his family and his guys. This book with its sad reality of a person and his family living with DID is an eye opener to how someone with such a difficult condition can be so strong. A story that you will never forget!
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Summary: He made it up to sell books..this multiple says no way!
Review: this is an excellent book. I was diagnosed after an alter came out and totaled a friends living room and identified himself. So THAT'S why people have come up to me for years and called me by different names...This book gave me the courage to get back into therapy after 9 years of suffering. His tales of fighting denial were very helpful. While it certainly doesn't cover all aspects of being multiple it is VERY true to life. We've been told no 2 systems are alike but if this guy is making it up then I'm the king of Algeria.
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Summary: I listened intently to the dead mans tales...
Review: Extraordinary book! Although I have never met a person with DID in my travels through this life. After reading Camerons book, I feel as though I have...Throughout the book, I kept finding myself looking at the photo of he and Rikki and empathasizing with them and each time a tear or many would fall. I truly believe that he, Rikki and Kyle possess alot of strength and compassion. And their sense of family assisted them in the healing process.Many persons should follow in their footsteps.I am very much looking forward to listening to more of what Cameron West has to say, I will and have recommended this book to many...Cameron keep writing! Rikki keep believing and Kyle...Keep perfectly being you! :)
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