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This digital document is a journal article from Behaviour Research and Therapy, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) frequently report episodes of interidentity amnesia, that is amnesia for events experienced by other identities. The goal of the present experiment was to test the implicit transfer of trauma-related information between identities in DID. We hypothesized that whereas declarative information may transfer from one identity to another, the emotional connotation of the memory may be dissociated, especially in the case of negative, trauma-related emotional valence. An evaluative conditioning procedure was combined with an affective priming procedure, both performed by different identities. In the evaluative conditioning procedure, previously neutral stimuli come to refer to a negative or positive connotation. The affective priming procedure was used to test the transfer of this acquired valence to an identity reporting interidentity amnesia. Results indicated activation of stimulus valence in the affective priming task, that is transfer of emotional material between identities. ... Read more

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Chapters: Billy Milligan, Shirley Ardell Mason, Robert Oxnam, Chris Costner Sizemore, Truddi Chase. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Stanley Milligan (born 1955), known as Billy Milligan, was the subject of a highly publicized court case in Ohio in the late 1970s. After having committed several felonies including armed robbery, he was arrested for three rapes on the Ohio State University campus. In the course of preparing his defense, psychologists diagnosed Milligan with multiple personality disorder. Milligan pleaded insanity, with claim that two personalities in Milligan had committed the crimes without the others being aware of it. He was the first person diagnosed with multiple personality disorder to raise such a defense. Milligan's mother Dorothy grew up in Ohio farm country, and lived in Circleville, with her husband, Dick Jonas. They divorced, and Dorothy eventually moved to the Miami, Florida area, where she worked as a singer. There she began living with Johnny Morrison, a Jewish comedian who was still married. Dorothy and Johnny had a son, Jim, in October 1953. In February 1955, in Miami Beach, they had a second son, William Stanley, later known as Billy Milligan. Dorothy and Johnny had a third child together, Kathy Jo, born in December 1956. At this time, Johnny was 36 years old. According to biographer Daniel Keyes, "Meeting the medical expenses overwhelmed Johnny. He borrowed more, gambled more, drank more.... was hospitalized for acute alcoholism and depression in ... 1958...." In what appeared to be an unsuccessful suicide attempt, according to Keyes, " found him slumped over the table, half a bottle of Scotch and an empty bottle of sleeping pills on the floor." A few months after this attempt, on January 17, 1959, Johnn...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=707501 ... Read more

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Chapters: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Shine, Pollock, Dissociative Identity Disorder in Popular Culture, Effy Stonem, Sid and Nancy, Tira, Marv, the Hours, Barry "Newt" Newton, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, the Flying Scotsman, Lithium, Misery, Joe Wicks, All in the Mind, Travis Bickle, a Fine Madness, Blue Sky, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Mark Miles. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 151. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dissociative identity disorder (DID, also referred to as multiple personality disorder or MPD) has been popularized in many works of fiction throughout the world. The topic has attracted the attention of professional scholars. This article provides a list of references to DID and MPD in fiction. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=918903 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Satanic ritual abuse refers to a moral panic that originated in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout the country and eventually to many parts of the world, before subsiding in the late 1990s. Allegations of SRA involved reports of physical and sexual abuse of individuals in the context of occult or Satanic rituals. At its most extreme definition, SRA involved a world-wide conspiracy involving the wealthy and powerful of the world elite in which children were abducted or bred for sacrifices, pornography and prostitution. ... Read more

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Dissociative Identitiy Disorder Book
I have just really started getting into the book. But so far I have enjoyed reading it. It is a topic that interest me and a friend was telling me that she was reading the book and recommended that I read it, so I bought it --but I have been so busy that I haven't been able to read the complete book yet. I think anyone interested in Psychology would benefit from reading this book.

Multiple Personalities?
Now that psychiatry recognized what used to be called Multiple Personality Disorder as DID, understanding of the phenomenon, its causes, symptoms, and the restoration of the personality have become possible. Tom Hawkins book is a milestone in understanding the nature of this problem that affects so many who have been traumatized in early childhood, and also in understanding the healing that can take place. This is a book every counselor, pastor, and physician should study, and it is wonderfully enlightening to the victims and family members of persons with DID. Strongly recommended! ... Read more

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“Five Farewells” is a memoir about one woman’s childhood and adult experiences and the way her mind works with Dissociative Identity Disorder. “Five Farewells” is about DID as an experience, as another way of living. Despite the traumas of this young woman’s childhood experiences, in which she was subjected to violent physical and emotional abuse from her adoptive mother and repeated sexual abuse from her cousin and two step-fathers, she writes about learning to accept her time here as a time of evolution. Beautifully written in a clear and compelling style that is poetic and poignant, “Five Farewells” is about the psychological truth of one girl’s dream-like qualities in her experience with DID, and her redemptive healing through therapy and hard-won wisdom. A memoir told with a talented writer’s eye for detail and cinematic narrative power, “Five Farewells” is a personal account of multiplicity written by a writer of great promise. ... Read more

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An important contribution
I found Five Farewells to be an important contribution to the literature of human psychological development, especially as it so clearly conveys the effects of physical and sexual abuse on a young child's personality formation.I have read a number of these third and first hand accounts of childhood trauma and adult recovery, many written by the therapists who worked with the healing process for these people who survived the unthinkable, but this is easily one of the best books ever written on this topic by the person whose personality development was altered by her young experiences.Liz Elliot is a remarkable writer with a powerful but triumphant personal story to tell.

With Dissociation recognized as a nearly universal response to life's more powerful challenges, and with Dissociative Identity Disorder now acknowledged in its varying degrees as a much more common condition than previously seen, the mental health rights of the people affected by childhood mistreatment should become an important area of advocacy for legal equity, another evolution in the recognition of the differently abled among us.

Five Farewells is a very readable, powerful, and wise account of psychic coping during and beyond a childhood warped by adult evil.Now that an increasingly large number of people are telling their experiences as children who had their emotional lives damaged by adults, this poignant memoir might possibly help change public awareness about the injustices of mistreating the most vulnerable.I highly recommend this book to anyone who suffered through painfully formative youthful experiences, especially since it offers so much hope of healing and personal evolution beyond childhood pain.

In fact, I recommend Five Farewells to anyone who ever had a childhood, happy or not, or somewhere in between, and to anyone who feels passionately that children are people who deserve to grow up without living in a climate of fear and threat caused by the unhappinesses of the adults who should be keeping them safe from harm. ... Read more

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"The most significant result of dissociation was the loss of time. The most significant feeling during sexual abuse was powerlessness. There seemed to be no use to fighting, it was useless. Powerlessness led to the loss of hope. The loss of hope led to depression. Depression often followed me since I was young. I easily got depressed, and I turned my anger in on myself. The fear, led to anger. Anger that led to self loathing, low self esteem, and self- scratching to alter my low mood. Yet, even as I was plagued by these things, I kept up a "normal" lifestyle. I don't think most of my friends even had a clue I was a multiple. Sometimes strange, or forgetful, even a liar, but not multiple."Caroline was the victim of repeated childhood sexual abuse and suffered from Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder from the age of three.She cultivated a life of secrecy to avoid explaining her loss of time, body memories, and post-traumatic stress symptoms, fearful that psychiatrists would lock her up and throw away the key. As an adult, Caroline finally found a Christian therapist and began her healing journey, applying an adapted Attachment-Repair technique, giving glory to God, and becoming integrated. Most of her story is recorded in her journals.Caroline is a first time author, a California native, married with three children. She has a passion to help multiples to seek Christian counseling and become integrated. She hopes her book will be useful to abuse survivors, their families, professionals in the field of Psychology, students, and support people of those suffering with Multiple Personality/Dissociative Identity Disorder. ... Read more

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Twelve-year-old Dauna found herself sitting on a stool in the middle of a dilapidated barn. The cold metal of a gun was pressed against her temple. 'You have a choice. Have sex with each man here. If you refuse...we will put this gun to your head and pull the trigger.' Dauna did not know if she would survive this game of Russian roulette. Either way, she would lose. If the gun did not kill her, the repeated rapes by the men surrounding her could very well kill her spirit. Imagine a world where your very first memories are of sexual abuse, where molestation and rape are a childhood norm, and where your own family members do not protect you, but instead are the source of your torment. For Dauna Cole, this nightmare was reality. A Shattered Mind is her story of survival through horrific abuse and of her lifelong struggle to overcome the psychological and emotional aftermath. After being removed from her home by Child Services, Dauna thought her suffering was over, but it was just beginning as she worked to put the fractured memories of the past and the pieces of herself back together again. ... Read more

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Pretty good
Like some other autobiographies written by people with DID that I've read, this one didn't seem to be written too well but it was still pretty informative. With every book about DID that I read, I learn something new about it. I like that she had her daughters write something at the end of this one, to give a new perspective on it. It's pretty short; it only took me a couple days to finish. She also has pictures of herself in the middle of the book, which I thought was very brave. I would recommend this to anyone who's interested in learning more about DID.

Uplifting, Infuriating, Unbeliveable - but True
Yes, Dauna's story is uplifting in that she has "survived" such unthinkable abuse...but it's also infuriating that the abusers walked away free. I couldn't put the book down. Dauna is a bigger person than I would be - I don't believe I could ever truly forgive.
D. Chodil

Amazing Story
I couldn't put this book down once I started it.It is hard to wrap my mind around the horrors that Dauna survived.It's remarkable how she's been able to pull her life together and handle the memories that came out once she started therapy.This is a must read for anyone who has suffered some type of childhood abuse.

Shattered Mind - a MUST Read
Shattered Mind is a gut-wrenching account of one woman's survival through abuse of horrific proportions. My emotions ran amok with every page, but I was ultimately left with a reminder of how utterly powerful the human mind and spirit are. A definite MUST read for anyone who has survived or is currently experiencing abuse.

Thank you, Dauna, for sharing your incredible journey; may you experience nothing but peace, harmony and joy from now on.

An amazing story!
This is an amazing story of recovery after unimaginable abuse.Dauna is a survivor in the truest sense of the word! ... Read more

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A true tale of Dissociative Identity Disorder (a form of multiple personality disorder).

Stacy Bewick is lost. Lost inside her head. Born to parents who abused her body, mind and soul, Stacy learned to survive through psychic connections to angelic spirit guides and by creating inner personalities.

By the time Stacy was two, the personality called "Marla" knew how to find food in the paper garbage sack in the kitchen. When she was four, the personality called "George" knew how to be strong enough to block the pain from Mommy's forsythia whips and Daddy's leather belt.

Stacy didn't grow up in a remote village or primitive culture. Stacy grew up in a small town in New Jersey in the 1960s.

Sky Eyes is a personal journey into dissociative identity disorder. Though based on a true story, names, dates and identifying information have been changed. One of the main visible symptoms of DID is the lack of a single stable personality. Like post-traumatic stress disorder, DID is created as a result of trauma and extreme, prolonged abuse.
Stories like Sybil and The Three faces of Eve help readers connect with adults who suffer from DID. Sky Eyes is unique in that it describes each of her multiple personalities as it develops in a child. Step into Stacy's world and discover what happens when society ignores abuse.

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Everybody has a secret. Some are darker than others. What would you do to protect your secrets?

This is the true story of a father reunited with his young son. He discovers, over time, that the boy’s mind is fractured into more than 400 multiple personalities that protect his secrets. The family’s lives are threatened when they discover he is also possessed by demons that seek to destroy them. The boy’s mother offered her son up to a satanic cult and to abuses so horrific that they seem more like fiction than reality.

How does this happen to a God-fearing family, and how do they deal with what is revealed to them? A young boy’s secrets could destroy this family, or, at the very least, bring it to its knees. When the O’Neal family is threatened by mysterious forces, cultic rituals, and a labyrinth of obstacles, they find out how far they will go and how hard they will fight to save one of their own and themselves in the ultimate, real life battle of good versus evil. ... Read more

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Thrilling
I don't know where to begin. This story was so well-told, I felt like I was smack dab in the middle of the demonic chaos.

Four hundred nine personalities inside one fifteen year old boy who--thanks to the cult his mother belonged to--suffered unspeakable, unimaginable terrors, beatings, rapes and other assorted atrocities. The carnage and violence Brendan experienced and witnessed was sickening. I can't find enough negative words to explain what this family went through.

The strength, courage and deep-rooted belief in God brought this family out of the bowels of hell to come out the other side a stronger group. It is only through the Savior this was even possible.

Being tossed aside by their "church family" because of untrue, unsubstantiated rumors, they were left with only their faith, a cross, anointed oil and their love for a child in peril.

As I read this I thanked God for sparing this family and allowing them to survive. And, kept thinking, there but for the grace of God go I.

Reviewed by: Terri Ann Armstrong for Suspense Magazine
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Is it really true?
I read this entire book last night.I have the say that the book did hold my attention as I was anxious to read how it ends.There are numerous inaccuracies with time throughout the book that I found really annoying.I figured that the story takes place circa 1991 given the birth years mentioned in the story, but the paperboy uses an ipod!

Chilling true story
Wow! I have read a lot of horror but this one, in part because it was based on a true story, really got me. An amazing story of good vs evil and the unbelievable evil humans perpetrate on each other. Unlike the over-the-top cheap thrills in books and movies like "The Exorcist," all the events are presented professionally and passionately here by Rozier. She remains true to the facts but gives the characters plenty of realistic emotional depth. A must read. ... Read more

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"What right have you to choose the fate of your future self, a personwho may not share your current aspirations and attitudes at all? Justwho do you think you are? The most important -- and confusing --decisions of your life depend on how you answer this philosophicalquestion, and Radden's book organizes a wealth of relevant psychologicalinformation and philosophical analysis into a position of admirable andpersuasive clarity. Seldom does philosophical thinking have so directand beneficial an impact on real life dilemmas -- dilemmas we all mustface sooner or later." -- Daniel C. Dennett, Director, Center forCognitive Studies, Tufts University

If people change radically as a result of mental disturbance or braindamage or disease, how should we acknowledge that change in the way inwhich we respond to them? And how should society and the law acknowledgethat change, particularly in cases of multiple-personality andmanic-depressive disorders? This book addresses these and a cluster ofother questions about changes in the self through time and about themoral attitudes we adopt in the face of these changes. The result is abroad-ranging interdisciplinary discussion at the boundaries ofpsychiatry, philosophy, law, and social policy. Theories of personalidentity are applied to, and clarified in light of, the appearance ofmultiple selves in a variety of personality and identity disturbances.Divided minds force us to clarify our thinking about human subjectivity,Radden points out, and when they result in a succession of "selves,"they provoke interesting ethical and legal issues. Radden provides aclear and thorough discussion of basic issues faced by clinicians andphilosophers contending with the unity of consciousness and personalidentity, particularly in the area of dissociative disorders, whereissues of unity of consciousness have a direct impact on clinical andforensic decisions. Part 1 takes up the divisions and heterogeneitiesassociated first with the normal self and then with the pathologicalself and identifies a "language of successive selves." Part 2 providesan extended analysis of personal responsibility and culpability withregard to extreme multiplicity. Part 3 takes up the notion of ametaphysics of successive selves. And part 4 addresses theoreticalconcerns associated with clinical material in an effort to further ourunderstanding of the concepts of self-consciousness and subjectivity.A Bradford Book ... Read more

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Over the last decade, the literature on therapy addressing trauma in children has expanded considerably, as has the literature on dissociation. Unfortunately, very little of this literature has addressed the issue of dissociation in children. At the same time, therapists working with children and adolescents have become increasingly aware of the occurrence of trauma and dissociation in their clients.

Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents is a groundbreaking text for the study of dissociation in young people. In eight unique and compelling case studies, the authors lay out detailed narratives that illustrate both the therapy’s progression as well as the therapist’s reactions and thought process during case development. These case studies present many aspects of working with traumatized children who dissociate—trauma processing, attachment work, work with the family, interactions with the community—and give frank analysis of the difficulties clinicians encounter in various therapeutic situations and how and why they arrived at particular therapeutic decisions. While the book includes intensive analysis of each author’s theoretical framework as well as that of dissociation in general, it also shows clinicians, in the most practical terms, how to translate the theories of dissociation into action. No clinician interested in trauma and dissociation in children will want to be without this text.

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This digital document is an article from MedSurg Nursing, published by Jannetti Publications, Inc. on February 1, 1997. The length of the article is 3753 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Nursing management for patients with dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder, includes early diagnosis, accurate communication, and consistency among caregivers. DID usually develops from instances of childhood physical or sexual abuse. Early identification of DID allows the staff to make appropriate preparations. Communication with staff, physicians, the patient and the primary psychiatrist will help create consistent care and build toward a positive prognosis.

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Title: Care of the dissociative identity disordered patient on a medical-surgical unit: nursing implications.
Author: Maria A. Holden
Publication: MedSurg Nursing (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 1997
Publisher: Jannetti Publications, Inc.
Volume: v6Issue: n1Page: p47(5)

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