The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality - Couverture souple

Casey, Joan Frances; Wilson, Lynn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0349104514 ISBN 13 : 9780349104515

Editeur : Abacus, 1993

Synopsis

For almost 30 years Joan Frances Casey suffered from what has been described as a "disease of hiddenness". People called her compulsive, a workaholic, an over-achiever, and too intense. Nobody, least of all she herself, suspected that she was "housing" a flock of more than two dozen disparate personalities - all of them competing for attention, unaware of the others' existence and contributing towards her near-destruction. After the mysterious collapse of her marriage and an inexplicable flirtation with suicide, she consulted analyst Lynn Wilson, who diagnosed Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) - a severe form of psychological trauma resulting from serious child abuse - and began the years of demanding and totally unorthodox therapy recounted in this book.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The groundbreaking first-person account of successful recovery from dissociative identity disorder, now featuring a new preface by the author

When Joan Frances Casey, a married twenty-six-year-old graduate student, “awoke” on the ledge of a building ready to jump, it wasn’t the first time she couldn’t explain her whereabouts. Soon after, Lynn Wilson, an experienced psychiatric social worker, diagnosed Joan with multiple personality disorder. She prescribed a radical program of reparenting therapy to individually treat her patient’s twenty-four separate personalities. As Lynn came to know Joan’s distinct selves—Josie, the self-destructive toddler; Rusty, the motherless boy; Renee, the people pleaser—she uncovered a pattern of emotional and physical abuse that had nearly consumed a remarkable young woman.
 
Praise for The Flock

“A testimony to [Casey’s] courage and the dedication of her therapist, who believed that a profoundly fragmented self has the capacity to heal within a loving therapeutic relationship.” —The New York Times Book Review
 
“Absolutely mesmerizing . . . the first coherent autobiographical study of its kind.” —The Detroit News
 
“A compelling psychological odyssey offering unique insights into a nightmare world.” —Kirkus Reviews
 
“Extraordinary . . . deftly told and studded with striking images.” —Publishers Weekly

Revue de presse

“A testimony to [Joan Frances Casey’s] courage and the dedication of her therapist, who believed that a profoundly fragmented self has the capacity to heal within a loving therapeutic relationship.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Absolutely mesmerizing . . . the first coherent autobiographical study of its kind.”—The Detroit News
 
“A compelling psychological odyssey offering unique insights into a nightmare world.”—Kirkus Reviews
 
“Extraordinary . . . deftly told and studded with striking images.”—Publishers Weekly

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Abacus
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0349104514
• ISBN 13: 9780349104515
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible