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Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Amongst Ourselves is a self-help guide written expressly for individuals with DID/MPD—and the first to provide readers with the practical steps they can take to cope with the condition and emerge with greater self-awareness and the skills to live a rich and rewarding life.
Authors Tracy Alderman and Karen Marshall explain what DID is and provide a clear account of its under ...more
Authors Tracy Alderman and Karen Marshall explain what DID is and provide a clear account of its under ...more
Paperback, 236 pages
Published
June 1st 1998
by New Harbinger Publications
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This is the book that helped us learn to live with DID. We still haven't done all of the exercises but we have read it all and it's fantastic. It validated us very much, it doesn't treat DID like this scary, horrible monster to be feared, it treats it as something to be embraced despite how scary it seems. It's one of the first books we've read about DID that actually validates non-human alters too, which is fantastic for us because that's something we have many of.
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Great book for anyone with a dissociative disorder, or anyone living with someone with a dissociative disorder. Since it is written by two psychologists, one of whom actually has DID, it makes you feel a little less crazy and a little less alone.
I think the biggest drawback is that it focuses entirely on the most extreme form of DID, whereas dissociative disorders are far often more subtly presented than that. For example, not everyone with a dissociative disorder has such distinct personalitie ...more
I think the biggest drawback is that it focuses entirely on the most extreme form of DID, whereas dissociative disorders are far often more subtly presented than that. For example, not everyone with a dissociative disorder has such distinct personalitie ...more
Jul 28, 2008
Angie crosby
rated it
it was amazing
Recommends it for:
persons with DID
Shelves:
d-i-d,
non-fiction
Includes exercises that are helpful as well as tips to living day to day with DID.
DID, just like any other of the Dissociative Disorders, is a highly controversial disorder. To this day, there's huge controversy about whether it's iatrogenic or anything else. Rigid boundaries between emotions and memories (state-dependent), repression to the extreme (psychoanalytic), self-hypnosis, reinforcement of forgetting (behaviorist). I'm sure there are more theories out there, but those are the ones I've heard the most.
Myself, I've seen Sybil. Also, I read the book and attempted to rea ...more
Myself, I've seen Sybil. Also, I read the book and attempted to rea ...more
brilliant for those just starting to understand their condition and who are trying to build some level of communication. there is also information for families, etc which is really useful - especially the section on learning intimacy for partners & also safety plans for each system member. I'd love there to be a more indepth version for those who are a few steps up from this but it's invaluable nonetheless.
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Excellent book for anyone who dissociates. I have not been able to find any other book that gives suggestions and ideas about getting through the day. Just doing the basic things can seem impossible sometimes. But this book is amazing I wish I could have gotten it right when I was diagnosed.
. anyone knows of any books similar to this, I’d love to get let titles. am sure this will stay my favorite. Thanks
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. anyone knows of any books similar to this, I’d love to get let titles. am sure this will stay my favorite. Thanks
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An accurate account of a woman dealing with Dissociative Identity Disorder and her partner's observations and assistance that helped heal her condition.
Jun 16, 2016
Anjuli
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it was amazing
Recommends it for:
People with DID
Shelves:
psychology,
own
This book is great for people just learning about DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). One of the authors has DID. It is definetly not an in-depth look at DID for professionals. For lay people it is a good book explaining some of the many causes of DID in childhood (not all from abuse) and gives some basic exercises to see 1) if you have DID and 2) if you have it, how to map your system and how to get along with everyone in your system.
I found this book had a good approach. It was both informative but not written at such a level as to be confusing.
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“I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.”
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“It's one thing to have your partner tell you he or she has multiple personalities, and it's another to walk in on your partner and find him or her sitting on the bedroom floor, speaking in a child like voice, having a tea party with stuffed animals.”
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