The Magic Daughter: A Memoir of Living with Multiple Personality Disorder
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (815 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0670859702 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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$25,000 ad/promo.. In a memoir that began as a suicide note, the author describes her day-to-day struggles with multiple personalities and her years of therapy with a psychologist who helped her piece together her past. 30,000 first printing
Profoundly moving Lynn Harnett Most of us think of Multiple Personality Disorder in terms of 'Sybil,' or 'The Three Faces of Eve,' or that California serial killer who claimed the rest of him was innocent. To us, it's an exotic craziness that either doesn't exist or is sensationally unpredictable and dangerous.Phillips, pseudonymous author of 'The Magic Daughter,' not only makes the disorder (now called Dissociative Identity Disorde. "Page turner" according to Karen Ziminski. I have read three other books by people who suffered from dissociative identity disorder (DID): I'm Eve by Chris Sizemore, Fractured Mind, A: My Life with Multiple PersonaIity Disorder by Robert Oxnam, and When Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase. I thought this one was the most engaging. "Jane Phillips" is a very good writer. There is no excess verbiage in this book, just enough colorful detail to bring her . "The Lone Dissenter" according to BeatleBangs196The Lone Dissenter BeatleBangs1964 While this book is a refresher from the cliches about Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly Multiple Personality Disorder that "Sybil" and "The Three Faces of Eve" created, I was still sorely disappointed in this book. One thing that bothers me that there are people who view DID as an exotic condition and who go to great lengths to try to convince others they are hosts to other personalities. . . While this book is a refresher from the cliches about Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly Multiple Personality Disorder that "Sybil" and "The Three Faces of Eve" created, I was still sorely disappointed in this book. One thing that bothers me that there are people who view DID as an exotic condition and who go to great lengths to try to convince others they are hosts to other personalities.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. An incest survivor, Phillips has long been host to a multitude of personae "because one self could not cope with all there was to be coped with." Here she offers a frank and articulate account of how the disorder has shaped her daily life and of her struggle to achieve integration?the process whereby various selves coalesce into a single, stable identity. At times painful to read, this memoir yields compelling insights into the difficulties of confronting and overcoming a debilitating disorder. . From Publishers Weekly After several years of intensive psychotherapy, French professor Jane Phillips (a pseudonym) was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder (MPD), a little-understood condition believed to result from childhood trauma. Faced with unpleasant situatio