Bookish’s Comments (group member since Mar 02, 2013)

Bookish’s comments from the Plurals in Pages group.

There arent any because trauma is the only cause of multiplicity. There's quite a lot about people discovering major trauma through flashbacks, and there's a small number about people whose early experiences were distressing but not the kind of things generally thought of as trauma. The Final Face of Eve is very good - she does eventually come to an understanding of her early years and how her personalities it developed - and why - but it takes decades. One I haven't read is Herschel Walker's, he states he was not abused but the violent bullying by other children certainly sounds like it to me.

thanks John! @TraumaDID has just retweeted it

Add your favorites and vote away, let's see which we think the best book on Trauma and Dissociation is.

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There has been some hate speech on biographies in the last few months, including a nasty comment directed at me when I commented on someone else's review, and comments mocking DID as a diagnosis.

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Astrea - the description of Katherines It's Time refers to her/them as "of those fascinating multiples".

It makes them sounds like some kind of Victorian curiousity to be stared at and put on to "perform" for people's entertainment.

Chana - thanks for the info on Donna Williams. I will check it out

thanks for that Jay

Just finished it and reviewed it -
The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery
It's more about anorexia, and even more about history.

Apparently other books have been written about her which must be more interesting (this was really dull). It's about Mollie Fancher - also the subject of this book by someone who actually knew her (and her others). Mollie Fancher, the Brooklyn Enigma; An Authentic Statement of Facts in the Life of Mary J. Fancher

Jean-Marie Charcot and Pierre Janet were very well known writes on DID and will have written on this (Janet mentions Mollie in particular), have a look at
http://www.dissociative-identity-diso... for ideas

The Three Faces of Eve was 1950s, I am reading a book from before that time but not recommending it (its dull).

There are a lot of reviews listed on here, although some are very, very short http://mpbooks.artefact.org.nz

excellent list here too, with reviews
http://mpbooks.artefact.org.nz/book/

maybe you can edit it or take it out and add it yourself?
it's not under my ID

thanks for contributing! I'll have to put that on my to-read list

found an interesting list tday http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/boo...

good to hear - please add any new books you know of or link to reviews

http://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/2460...

try this out and add a few questions - make sure you update the quiz description with any new book names

here is a listopia with some books on it

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/33...