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Books about people with DID

Postby wallacekrauser » Wed Apr 23, 2014 2:53 am

Recently I read a biography called 'Today I'm Alice'. I would like to know if someone know any book or movie about people with dissociative identity disorder.

Other books about DID I had already read:
*Fight Club
*Sybil
*the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde
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Re: Books about people with DID

Postby ChristaAngel » Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:50 pm

I read this one recently:
"Pretty Girl Thirteen" by Liz Coley. But it's cheesy and a bit stupid fictional story...but entertaining if you get past the portrait of DID. It's a young adults book, so don't expect anything deep.

"The Three Faces of Eve" by Corbett Thigpen (?) is an old classic. No idea what the book is but I like the movie version.

Oh, my favorite is the "Bastard/Goblin/Wolf" trilogy by Tyler The Creator. However, those are rap albums, not books or movies.

I also like the movie "Identity" with John Cusack. Although, I don't usually like the idea of portraiting persons with DID as murderers. (Which is paradoxical considering that I Iove Tyler The Creator.)
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Re: Books about people with DID

Postby Partial » Thu Apr 24, 2014 1:20 am

There was one I picked up from here a few months ago.

It's a sci-fi.
"This Alien Shore" by CS Freidman
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Re: Books about people with DID

Postby Seangel » Thu Apr 24, 2014 3:02 am

I haven't read but know of:

Sum of All My Parts by Olga Trujillo - Biography

Set this house in order by Matt Ruff - A fictional story with good comments

When the rabbit howls by Truddi Chase's - A classic.

Ha! I had to go through many pages in the forum but found it:

A fractured mind by Robert Oxnam

The stranger in the mirror by Marlene Steinberg

There are many comments about books in the forum if you want to look for them.

I'd like to read your comments on the books should you read them. :)

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Re: Books about people with DID

Postby Teatime » Wed May 21, 2014 11:15 am

The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality by Joan Frances Casey (not read yet)

First Person Plural by Cameron West
(you can see an interview with him and his wife here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/1 ... 91462.html )

Breaking Free by Herschel Walker

Which One Am I? by Thomas Smith & James Darrell Williams (not read yet)


Out of the ones already listed I really enjoyed Set This House in Order, When Rabbit Howls and A Fractured Mind.

When Rabbit Howls and Set This House in Order don't push unification, which is nice for us, as soon as we're currently aiming for co-con co-op only.
The author of a Fractured Mind has stated in an interview once that he doesn't expect they will unify either, though there were some "mergers" in the book.

The stranger in the mirror is a textbook not a biography or novel.
The Myth of Sanity by Martha Stout, though a little out of date, is also a neat book in the same vein.
Mind you, when it comes to textbooks The Haunted Self is top dog for us.
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Re: Books about people with DID

Postby bourbon » Wed May 21, 2014 7:09 pm

Fractured by Ruth Dee

The Magic Castle by Carole Smith (a child with DID)

Am I a good girl yet? by Carolyn Bramhall
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Re: Books about people with DID

Postby Morosan » Thu May 22, 2014 8:07 pm

All of me - Kim Noble.

Kim Noble has been on Oprah's show a few years ago.
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