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Family & Relationships.
Psychology.
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HTML:A woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder reveals her harrowing journey from abuse to recovery in this #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography written by her own multiple personalities. Successful, happily married Truddi Chase began therapy hoping to find the reasons behind her extreme anxiety, mood swings, and periodic blackouts. What emerged from her sessions was terrifying: Truddiâ??s mind and body were inhabited by the Troopsâ??ninety-two individual voices that emerged to shield her from her traumatizing childhood. For years the Troops created a world where she could hide from the pain of the ritualized sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her own stepfatherâ??abuse that began when she was only two years old. It was a past that Truddi didnâ??t even know existed, until she and her therapist took a journey to where the nightmare began... Written by the Troops themselves, When Rabbit Howls is told by the very alter-egos who stayed with Truddi Chase, watched over her, and protected her. What they reveal is a spellbinding descent into a personal hellâ??and an ultimate, triumphant deliverance for the wom… (more)
Difficult and fascinating subject matter on abuse and its results. Spiritual in nature but clinical in its approach. Written by an army of 98 personalities. ( )
A process collected in hopes of counseling others with multiple personalities. We see the woman's devastating abused childhood unfold through her many personalities. ( )
This book was intriguing, confusing, enlightening, and frustrating. It is the story of a woman who suffered incredible horrors from the time she was 2 years old till she left aroung age 15 or 16. She was physically, sexually and verbally abused by her step-father, and physically and verbally abused by her mother. In her attempt to survive these horrors, she split and evolved many personalities - some still functioning and some incredibly damged. The story unfolds through her sessions with her therapist and through a manuscript that was written by various personalities which she calls "The Troops". It does not unfold linearly, and the reader does not always know which of the troops is speaking or taking control. It was an incredible journey for a woman who only figures out in her 30's that she is a vessle for over 90 very different people. I feel that I will need to read it again at some point - it is difficult to imagine how she could have survived with what the step-father did to her and what the mother sat back and allowed to happen. ( )
To be honest it was a very hard book to read. very confusing with all the troops characters. I thought it was a bit weird that the troops were writing this story. I liked Sybil much better but there were parts of this book that were really good. What a sad story.
I had read started to read this book when it first came out then had to put it away. It was to much emotionally for me.I felt so horrible for Truddi and to know that evil affects even little children so profoundly. I eventually got rid of the book with out finishing it. Fast foward 15 years? later and I checked it out at my local library. I forced myself through it and was amazed at the endurance of the human spirit and what the mind does in order to protect . I had read Sybil when I was in high school and while that was a horrible case of abuse and personality disorder it did not have the impact on me that this book did. Not for the weak hearted. ( )
This book is dedicated to Robert A. Phillips Jr., Ph.D., for enduring "Stanley" and making the battleground safe; Lois B. Valladares, M.S., for exposing the location of the other bomb; Joan Uri of A Woman's Place, for the sense of urgency; our agent Rebecca McCormick and Mr McCormick, for giving the Irishman his due; Leezie Dameron, Dennis V. Kosineski and Boo, Suzanne Turner McBride, Dottie Reich, Alice Randall, Ernie Fears, Sandra R. Gregg, Karen Chenoweth, and Pat Martin, for the light in the window; Sergeant York and the woman and men of the Montgomery County Police Youth Division; to "Mr." Stone, who will remember and do; Mike and Ken and the entire Men's Group - and Terry and Apple Blossoms for their guts and a beautiful reflection; to Mervie, Arthur, and the grandfather in fond memory - most especially to our daughter, Kari Kathleen Cupcake with love beyond time - and to our Daniel Davis for whom the eight horses ride.
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Protective Services, federally funded and operating statewide, dealt with a variety of family ills - among them, child abuse.
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Family & Relationships.
Psychology.
Nonfiction.
HTML:A woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder reveals her harrowing journey from abuse to recovery in this #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography written by her own multiple personalities. Successful, happily married Truddi Chase began therapy hoping to find the reasons behind her extreme anxiety, mood swings, and periodic blackouts. What emerged from her sessions was terrifying: Truddiâ??s mind and body were inhabited by the Troopsâ??ninety-two individual voices that emerged to shield her from her traumatizing childhood. For years the Troops created a world where she could hide from the pain of the ritualized sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her own stepfatherâ??abuse that began when she was only two years old. It was a past that Truddi didnâ??t even know existed, until she and her therapist took a journey to where the nightmare began... Written by the Troops themselves, When Rabbit Howls is told by the very alter-egos who stayed with Truddi Chase, watched over her, and protected her. What they reveal is a spellbinding descent into a personal hellâ??and an ultimate, triumphant deliverance for the wom
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