| List Of Books On Personality Disorders |
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| One Child Written By Torey Hayden (Amazon.com) A dedicated teacher shares her success story with Sheila, an autistic child abandoned by her mother and abused by an alcoholic father, who was considered a hopeless case in spite of her genius intellect. |
| The Fractured Mirror: Healing Multiple Personality Disorder By C.W. Duncan, Ph.D Health Communication Inc. This book has stories that you can read to your inner kids, ideas for working with your system, and more. It might be a good book for those recently diagnosed. |
| Multiple Personality Disorder From The Inside Out By Barry M. Cohen Sidran Press "The unique quality of this book is the authentic voice of the person with MPD describing an unimaginable experience of life that becomes comprehensible and familiar. At some point the therapist who is learning about MPD must gain this understanding from inside out and this can be a slow process when working with only one or a few individual clients. This book offers a giant step towards this understanding." |
| Uncovering The Mystery Of MPD: Its Shocking Origin... Its Surprising Cure By James G. Friesen, Ph.D Thomas Nelson Publishers Friesen clearly describes the concepts of what he notes as level 1 and level 2 alters and the process of integration, and the fact that this disoeder is not a disease, but an expression of the power of the mind as it raises its defenses to protect itself from the effects of mental trauma at a young age. |
| United We Stand: A Book For People With Multiple Personalities By Eliana Gil, Ph.D Launch Press, Walnut Creek, CA A good book to begin understanding MPD/DID and why it was developed. |
| More Than Survivors: Conversations With Multiple Personality Clients By James G. Friesen, Ph.D WIPF & Stock Publishers James Friesen emphasizes how special multiple are. It is a book that will make you feel good about yourself if you are a Multiple. |
| Safe Passage To Healing: A Guide For Survivors Of Ritual Abuse By Chrystine Oksana HarperPerennial Based on extensive research, interviews, and her own personal experiences as a ritual abuse survivor, Oksana has written a compassionate and comprehensive healing guide that fully explains what ritual abuse is, confronts its long-term effects, and help readers through the recovery process. |
| Reaching For The Light: A Guide For Ritual Abuse Survivors And Their Therapists By Emily P. Rose The Pilgrim Press- Cleveland, Ohio Compassionate, sensitive, and non-triggering. This book offers a step-by-step guide to understanding and effectively dealing with the impact of ritual and cult abuse. Written by a survivor of ritual abuse, this book includes a helpful glossary of medical terms as well as definitions of ritual abuse and multiple personality disorder. Also included are numerous survivor stories in which those who have experienced ritual abuse share their challenges- and their triumphs. |
| Until Darkness Hold No Fear: Healing A Multiple Personality By Elizabeth Julie Mikal Books Beyond Border, Inc.- Boulder, CO The Author writes about her system and how they work together and the different groups of them. |
| The Magic Daughter: A Memoir Of Living With Multiple Personality Disorder By Jane Phillips Viking Press In This extraordinary distinctive, exquisitely crafted memoir, one that began as a suicide note, Jane Phillips, a woman with "disassociative identity disorder" writes about the intimate details of her life. This book is a harrowing, moving, inspiring, and ultimately triumphant account of a woman's journey towards wholeness. |
| The Flock/The Autobiography Of A Multiple Personality By Joan Frances Casey, Lynn Wilson Fawcett Books A testimony to her own courage and the dedication of her therapist who believed that a profoundly fragmented self has the capacity to heal within a loving therapeutic relationship. |
| When Rabbit Howls Truddi Chase The Berkley Publishing Group A world of 92 voices has lived within her since childhood. Now a woman and her therapist journey back to the unspeakable crimes she suffered to discover where the nightmare began.... |
| First Person Plural: My Life As A Multiple By Cameron West, Ph.D A singular first-person account of the much debated condition now known as disassociative identity disorder (DID) formerly termed as multiple personality disorder by a man who professed to have 24 seperate personalities or "alters." |
| Recovery Of You Inner Child: The Highly Acclaimed Method For Liberating Your Inner Self By Lucia Capacchione, Ph.D Simon & Schuster, New York This book may help you meet your inside kids and has some good activities for opening communication with them. |
| Shelter From The Storm: Hope For Survivors Of Sexual Abuse By Cynthia Kubetin & James Mallory Life Way Press This book is a great workbook for survivors od sexual abuse who want to be healed of the pain, shame and effects of the abuse. It goes step-by-step through the healing process needed, giving sound biblical support for the healing process. It is not an easy process, but this book gives one very good start at healing and being an overcomer, not just a survivor. |
| A Door Of Hope: Recognizing & Resolving The Pains Of Your Past By Jan Frank Here's Life Publishers Victims Od Abuse need to know how other people have made it through the recovery process. As a victim of incest herself, Jan Frank understands the myriad emotions that victims struggle with and offers ten proven steps towards recovery. A powerful story of inspiration and restoration. |
| The Courage To Heal: A Guide For Women Survivors Of Sexual Abuse By Ellen Bass & Laura Davis HarperPerennial- Harper & Row Publishers This is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who was sexually abused as a child- and those who care about her. |
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| Amongst Ourselves By Tracy Alderman And Karen Marshall New Harbinger Publications This is a self-help book written by Karen who is both a therapist and someone who lives with DID. There are guided excercises throughout the book. It has parts as well for family, therapist, and others seeking to understand and support those interesting and complex people. (Those of us who live with DID). |
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