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  Identical

  by Ellen Hopkins

  Do twins begin in the womb? Or in a better place? Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. Kaeleigh and Raeanne are 16-year-old identical twins, the daughters of a district court judge father and politician mother running for US Congress. Everything on the surface seems fine, but underneath run very deep and damaging secrets. What really happened when the girls were 7 years old in that car accident... (more)
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  Switching Time

  A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities

  by Richard K. Baer

  One afternoon in 1989, Karen Overhill walks into psychiatrist Richard Baer’s office complaining of vague physical pains and depression. Odder still, she reveals that she’s suffering from a persistent memory problem. Routinely, she “loses” parts of her day, finding herself in places she doesn’t remember going to or being told about conversations she doesn’t remember having. Her problems are so pervasive that she... (more)
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  The Sum of My Parts

  A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder

  by Olga Trujillo

  Olga Trujillo's childhood was marked by such extensive violence and sexual abuse that she developed the ability to observe scenes from her life as though they were happening to someone else. Blocking herself from the terrors of her real life, Olga began to "go away in her head" and create alternate senses of herself, or "parts"--distinct personalities that allowed her to compartmentalize and temporarily forget her... (more)
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  Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder (or Multiple Personality Disorder)

  by Jo L. Ringrose

  This book is aimed at psychotherapy providers (although it is likely to also be of interest to sufferers and their families) who want to gain a comprehensive understanding of the essential principles of assessing and working with clients with DID. Using vignettes, the author describes the structure of the personality of someone with DID and guides the reader through the various assessment tools. Issues and... (more)
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  Set This House in Order - A Romance of Souls

  by Matt Ruff

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  United We Stand

  A Book for People With Multiple Personalities

  by Eliana Gil

  This book is written for individuals with multiple personalities, and explains what multiplicity is, why it develops, how to understand it,and when and how to seek help. Multiples have too long suffered with nagging worries about being crazy or so unique that they cannot have friends or companionship. This book defines multiplicity as a creative and life saving adaptive strategy, not as a disorder or sign of... (more)
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  Cuckoo

  by Madison Clell

  'Cuckoo' tells stunning true stories of the author's struggles with Multiple Personality Disorder - from the bewildering troubles of living and learning about this condition, to numerous alternate personalities fighting to control the single physical body, to transcending the trauma that made multiplicity a necessity in the first place. Often funny, sometimes horrifying, but always bitingly honest, Clell's work... (more)
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  The Silver Boat II : The Journey

  by Ann Adams

  As a continuation of The Silver Boat, this story takes an unsuspected and bewildering turn which challenges the little girl to deal even more deeply with the most disguised aspects of herself.
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  Mother Had a Secret

  by Tiffany Fletcher

  As a teenager, Tiffany Fletcher knew that her mother, Vickie, had been brutally abused as a child. She knew that the abuse caused her mother's severe mental and emotional instability, which brought painful complications for the entire family. But until a horrific car wreck landed Vickie in the hospital, Tiffany didn't know that there was a name for the turmoil grippng her home: dissociative identity disorder,... (more)
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  Jurassic Park: Book 1

  Jurassic Park

  by Michael Crichton

  On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has discovered. Now one of mankind's most thrilling fantasies has come true and the first dinosaurs that the Earth has seen in the time of man emerge. But, as always, there is a dark side to the fantasy and after a catastrophe destroys the park's... (more)
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  The Flock

  The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

  by Joan Frances Casey

  "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... (more)
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  Wide Sargasso Sea

  by Jean Rhys

  A sensitive and protected young woman of a land owning wealthy family, Antoinette Cosway grows up in the lush natural world of the Caribbean. She is sold into marriage to the cold hearted and prideful Rochester, or rather, he is bought as a husband for her with her expected inheritance being his need of survival, the unwilling groom who succumbs to his need for money and his lust. Yet he will make her pay for her... (more)
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  The Basic Eight: A Novel

  by Daniel Handler

  Flannery Culp wants you to know the whole story of her spectacularly awful senior year. Tyrants, perverts, tragic crushes, gossip, cruel jokes, and the hallucinatory effects of absinthe -- Flannery and the seven other friends in the Basic Eight have suffered through it all. But now, on tabloid television, they're calling Flannery a murderer, which is a total lie. It's true that high school can be so stressful... (more)
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  A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder

  by Robert B. Oxnam

  The harrowing, insightful, and courageous account of a prominent man's struggle with multiple personalities Robert Oxnam was a high-profile, successful man: A renowned scholar and president of the Asia Society, he appeared frequently on television and traveled the world as a sought-after expert. But what the millions of people who’d seen him didn’t know -- what even those closest to him didn’t know -- was... (more)
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  Bone Cold

  by Erica Spindler

  "A compelling story packed with authentic detail, Spindler's novel chilled me to the bone!" -- Chris Rush, international private investigator, Chris Rush Private Investigation, White Plains,NY
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  First Person Plural

  My Life as a Multiple

  by Cameron West

  Unlike Flora Rheta Schreiber's Sybil, which presented a fairly dispassionate and professional view of multiple personality disorder, now called dissociative identity disorder (DID), West's account is an intimate memoir of the pain and frustration he encountered before and after being diagnosed. In his 30s, West began experiencing symptoms of the disorder, including the presence of inner voices, periods of... (more)
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  The Magic Daughter: A Memoir of Living with Multiple Personality Disorder

  by Jane Phillips

  In this extraordinarily distinctive, exquisitely crafted memoir, one that began as a suicide note, Jane Phillips, a woman with "disassociative identity disorder" writes about the intimate details of her life. The Magic Daughter is a harrowing, moving, inspiring, and ultimately triumphant account of a woman's journey toward wholeness.
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  The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

  by Onno van der Hart

  Life is an ongoing struggle for patients who have been chronically traumatized. They typically have a wide array of symptoms, often classified under different combinations of comorbidity, which can make assessment and treatment complicated and confusing for the therapist. Many patients have substantial problems with daily living and relationships, including serious intrapsychic conflicts and... (more)
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  Picture Perfect (Young Adult Fiction)

  by Elaine Marie Alphin

  Grade 9 Up-Ian's friend is missing, and no one knows what happened to him. Or do they? As Ian searches for clues, snatches of a forest glen and Teddy pleading for help keep creeping into his mind. On top of that, Ian's father, the school principal, has been putting extra pressure on his son to be perfect. The protagonist's three "personalities," School-Ian, Home-Ian, and Failure-Ian, all try to work together to do... (more)
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  Damaged

  by Cathy Glass

  Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass. At the Social Services office, Cathy (an experienced foster carer) is pressured into taking Jodie as a new placement. Jodie's challenging behaviour has seen off five carers in four months. Despite her reservations, Cathy decides to accept Jodie to protect her... (more)