Living With Your Selves: A Survival Manual for People With Multiple Personalities [Paperback]

Sandra J. Hocking (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1877872067 | ISBN-13: 978-1877872068 | Publication Date: July 1, 1992

This book is the first self-help manual for mutiple personality disorder. The fact that it is written by someone with MPD is evident throughout, in that this is an insider's view,and written from the heart. At the same time, the manual is balanced and sensible, and reviews the diagnosis and treatment of MPD accurately and in detail.

Product Details

• Paperback: 89 pages
• Publisher: Launch Press (July 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1877872067
• ISBN-13: 978-1877872068
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,029,568 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Quite brief and extremely basic and not as helpful as others, May 24, 1998

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This review is from: Living With Your Selves: A Survival Manual for People With Multiple Personalities (Paperback)

Hocking admits within a few pages that this guide is based on her experience only. And she's right. Most DID/MPD people and their families will sorely miss some of the staples concerning treatment (for example, Hocking has never been hospitalized and thus does not cover it in the book). Plus, the book does not provide any warning as to some of the highly triggering material in a few of the chapters- a must for being accessible to DID/MPD'rs. The book needs more pages to give more details about medications, other treatment possibilities, hospitalizations, and it needs "trigger alerts". There is also very little tangible day to day living assistance (how to entertain littles, how to prevent lost articles, relaxation techniques etc), something that the title "Survival Guide" leads the reader to believe it would have but doesn't. A bit of help is found in the therapist locator section, which goes over some questions to consider when finding a therapist, but like the rest of the book, there isn't enough depth. The book is okay as a quick-read memoir before bed, but for families and patients who want to confront this disorder well-armed, 80 odd pages is not enough.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good but basic book, July 6, 1998

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This review is from: Living With Your Selves: A Survival Manual for People With Multiple Personalities (Paperback)

Well-written and non-critical, this book approaches living with DID from the point of view of someone who has it. I found it very useful for some basic ideas...it would be a good book for someone just diagnosed.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Living with Your Selves, January 20, 2011

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This review is from: Living With Your Selves: A Survival Manual for People With Multiple Personalities (Paperback)

This book is an easy and practical read for those living with a diagnosis of DID and their loved ones. It does a good job of postulating a basic understanding of the diagnosis, the experience of DID, and in explaining some basic steps to take to foster internal awareness of the parts and to develop co-consciousness within the system.