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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Dec 1969
Genre: Psychology - Personality
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 320
This is the first coherent autobiographical study of its kind, and it is absolutely mesmerizing....Simply not be be missed.'
THE DETROIT NEWS
When Joan Frances Casey 'awoke' on the ledge of a building ready to jump, she did not know how she had gotten there. And it wasn't the first time she had blanked out. She decided to give therapy another try. And after a few sessions, Lynn Wilson, an experienced psychiatric social worker, was shocked to discover that Joan had MPD--Multiple Personality Disorder. And as she came to know Joan's distinct selves, Lynn uncovered a nightmarish pattern of emotional and physical abuse, including rape and incest, that nearly succeeded in smothering the artistic and intellectual gifts of this amazing young woman.
Wow, I read this one in a night... very compelling. Amazing story of what abuse can do to the human psyche, and it's capacity to self protect and find wholeness again.