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The Last Comprehensive Resource Book About Dissociative Identity Disorder You Will Ever Need
The Last Comprehensive Resource Book About Dissociative Identity Disorder You Will Ever Need is an all-encompassing textbook that includes every aspect about DID available today. Each topic carefully referenced and explained is user-friendly so that laymen and mental health professionals alike can comprehend and use on their healing journey.
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Published March 12, 2024
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March 19, 2021
Comprehensive, but needs an editor
This book is well-researched and provides insight into what DID is, how it forms and some about treatment. The section in the back about resources used and recommended is comprehensive and helpful. Davis needs a good editor, however, and the typos, grammatical errors and double sections gravely detracted from the overall reading experience. Good reference book, however - tons of information. I would have still preferred to read more of her own story, as at times her personal bias was presented as fact.
This book is well-researched and provides insight into what DID is, how it forms and some about treatment. The section in the back about resources used and recommended is comprehensive and helpful. Davis needs a good editor, however, and the typos, grammatical errors and double sections gravely detracted from the overall reading experience. Good reference book, however - tons of information. I would have still preferred to read more of her own story, as at times her personal bias was presented as fact.
September 18, 2019
The title is ridiculous. First off, it’s not comprehensive, leaving out areas related to DID and (I think) not quite getting everything right about alters. Second, the author herself (rightly) points out multiple places where continued research needs to (and will) be done...which means this probably won’t be the last word resource you will ever need after all.
I was taken aback when the author, who purports to provide all we need to know about DID, did not make her qualifications known. Was she a psychiatrist? A psychologist? A researcher in academia? I had to dig outside the book and it appears she is someone who has DID herself and got treatment for a long period of time. This hardly would seem to qualify her as an authority to the extent that she could write such a resource book (although she clearly could relate her own story of struggle).
This seemed headed for a one-star review, but the more I read, the more I was pleasantly surprised at what a concise and well-written summary of many of the major myths and issues behind DID. She presents a very objective breakdown of many of the debates about memory linked to DID and provides a good list of sources and resources at the end of the book.
So instead of giving up on her due to some flaws with the title and her apparent hiding of her (lack of) qualifications on a professional level, I put it in proper context and as someone that suffers from DID that has clearly done a lot of research into her condition, she presents a succinct lay of the DID land and plenty of other observations that hit the mark about mental illness.
I was taken aback when the author, who purports to provide all we need to know about DID, did not make her qualifications known. Was she a psychiatrist? A psychologist? A researcher in academia? I had to dig outside the book and it appears she is someone who has DID herself and got treatment for a long period of time. This hardly would seem to qualify her as an authority to the extent that she could write such a resource book (although she clearly could relate her own story of struggle).
This seemed headed for a one-star review, but the more I read, the more I was pleasantly surprised at what a concise and well-written summary of many of the major myths and issues behind DID. She presents a very objective breakdown of many of the debates about memory linked to DID and provides a good list of sources and resources at the end of the book.
So instead of giving up on her due to some flaws with the title and her apparent hiding of her (lack of) qualifications on a professional level, I put it in proper context and as someone that suffers from DID that has clearly done a lot of research into her condition, she presents a succinct lay of the DID land and plenty of other observations that hit the mark about mental illness.
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