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Title: Minds In Many Pieces: Revealing the Spiritual Side of Multiple Personality Disorder by Ralph B. Allison, Ted Schwarz ISBN: 0-9668949-0-1 Publisher: Cie Publishing Pub. Date: 22 February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Dr. Allison needs to read more
Comment: I highly appreciate Dr.Allison's efforts to understand MPD, and agree with him that MPD is not the same as DID, but if he would read more on the subject, like Magic Castle, Satan's High Priest, etc, he might not be so quick to decide against the cause of so much of the disorder. I also do not know how he can conclude that he has not seen Witchcraft as the root of any of his patients, since he thinks he has them 'cured' in a matter of weeks, or a year or so at the most. It took us about eight years before getting to the root of the problem. Yet, he does report the bizzare events he faced with bravery, and I applaud him for standing his ground against the medical doctrines per se. He has opened the gate for many of us to share our own paranormal lives with the public without being locked up for lunacy. Thanks, Doc.
Rating: 4
Summary: Piece of Mind
Comment: You don't have to be interested in learning about Multiple Personality Disorder to find this book fascinating. When writing a book about a person who was a multiple, I realized MPD offers a unique window into the human mind (including the soul). It offers an exploded view of the mind where one can look in and around the pieces before reassembly. Each multiple provides startling revelations of how the mind works and what it means to be a person.
Allison uses his case studies to examine individual fragments in just this way. He has what many doctors lack--humility. He shares his mistakes as well as his successes, and because he's willing to face ridicule by his colleagues, he ventures into territory others avoid. His stories offer glints of the human soul, insights into the workings of a spiritual realm that do not neatly fit in any of our scientific of theological boxes and hints of our connection to our Creator. Particularly interesting is his discovery of an entity common to all mulptiples. (Allison chooses the word "entity" over "personality" in this case.) He calls this entity the Internal Self Helper and shows how this aspect of the person has remarkable knowledge of all the events in the person's life as well as what it will take to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. The Internal Self Helper often displays knowledge of a connection with God that goes beyond this present life. One gets the feeling that in this unique personality or entity we are seeing a glimpse of that part of the person we call the soul or perhaps the spirit, broken off from the rest of the being so that the counselor can speak to it directly.
Some facets of personality shimmer with the light of heaven while others are opaque with the darkness of hell. In his book, Allison candidly describes reintigration of the personalities as well as exorcism of opportunistic spirits that have worked their way between the cracks.
The one drawback I saw to the book was the final chapter, which was appended fifteen years after first publication of the book. Unlike all of the other chapters which are short on conclusions and ample with examples, the last chapter is all conclusions without any examples to support his sweeping claims. He steps off his own pyschological turf to offer a number of enormous theological assertions, but offers no support from his own case studies or from religious writings. For example, he states that reincarnation is taught in the Old and New Testaments and acknowledges that the church disputes this, but then he doesn't say where or how the Bible supports the idea of reincarnation. There is, of course, the possiblity that John the Baptist was the reincarnation of the prophet Elijah predicted in the Old Testament, but he doesn't even mention this. And, so, I think he opens himself up to a lot of legitimate criticism in this final chapter because sweeping revolutions in religious understanding require careful argument, not mere assertions. Thus, four stars, instead of five.
Rating: 5
Summary: A 'must read' for those interested in MPD
Comment: Dr.Allison brings years of clinical experience forward in a paradigm challenging view of Multiple Personality Disorder (he differentiates this from DID).Bringing spirituality into the arena of the psyche he finds answers that help guide his patients to wholeness, and challenge the world view of his peers. A must read for psychotherapists and those interested in Multiple Personality Disorder.
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Title: The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook by Deborah Bray Haddock ISBN: 0737303948 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Multiple Personality Disorder from the Inside Out by Barry M. Cohen, W. Giller, Barry Cohen, Esther Giller, Lynn W. ISBN: 0962916404 Publisher: Sidran Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living With Dissociative Identity Disorder by Tracy, Ph.D. Alderman, Karen, L.C.S.W. Marshall , Karen Marshall ISBN: 1572241225 Publisher: New Harbinger Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Stranger In The Mirror by Marlene Steinberg, Maxine Schnall ISBN: 0060954876 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Flock/the Autobiography of a Multiple Personality by Joan Frances Casey ISBN: 0449907325 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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