One of the first places to go (when you're done here) is the Sidran Foundation "http://www.access.digex.net/~sidran/"

   Once there, you'll find all sorts of resources for DID's, SO's, and therapists.
To get information about the SO email list, email "snuffy@psnw.com"

"http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3059/" LOADS of links to stuff dealing with MPD and dissociation of a lesser degree.

IRC (internet relay chat) There is one IRC network,dal.net, which has a MPD support
channel...#divided. The telnet address I use to access dalnet is davis.dal.net
Once you get there, just type /join #divided.
 

THE READING LIST
Download a comprehensive reading list. [book did for forum.zip, 22.4k]
 

Here are some books and online ways to learn about DID and to help with support.
 

_When Rabbit Howls_ by the Troops of Truddi Chase is great, but I hear it's also
triggering.

The Flock is a personal favorite.
 

mouse likes this one:
_Obsidian Mirror_ by Louise Wisechild, is VERY good, and in a similar
vein, though I don't remember if it deals with DID or not, but it does
describe severe sadistic chronic familial abuse. I think its relevant.
 

(James Smith recommends these)
"Someone I Know has Multiple Personalities" by Sandra J. Hocking ISBN
1-877872-08-3 is a basic primer.

"Reaching for the Light" by Emilie P. Rose ISBN 0-8298-1079-x is a RA
recovery guide that discusses MP throughout. OK even for agnostics.
 

(Rudolph P. Brinker sent this list along)
"Through Divided Minds" by Dr.Robert S.Mayer ISBN #0-385-24396-0
"Satan's Children" by the same author-don't have number

"Uncovering the Mystery of MPD" by James G Friesen,Ph.D ISBN#0-89840-322-7

"Unchained Memories" by Lenore Terr,M.D.(excellnt) ISBN #0-465-08823-6

"Breaking the Circle of Satanic Ritual Abuse" by Daniel Ryder,C.C.D.C.,L.S.W.

What verified for me the reality of SRA abuse was a police investigative book written
in California " Cults That Kill" by Larry Kahaner, ISBN#0-446-35637-9

Try also the classic "SYBIL" and "When You are Ready" ? It is about a person
tortured /molested by her mother....like Sybil Dorrsett's mom this woman was a beast
too.
 

For those going the Christian healing route, consider..."The Dangers of Growing Up in
a Christian Home" by Donald E. Sloat,Ph.D. ISBN# 0-8407-3064-0

"Defeating Dark Angels(breaking demonic oppression in the beliver's life) by Charles
H. Kraft ISBN #0-89283-773-X

"Exorcism-fact or fiction?" by Dr. Ken Olson ISBN#0-8407-3403-4
"People of the Lie" by Dr. M. Scott Peck
 

(KE hopes this will help)
The following list came from a folder in the women's area of America Online. There's
other stuff there and web links to other potential resources... go to keyword:
womentalk, then choose the topic chats folder and then go to the women living
with mpd/did folder.
 

Clinical Theory and Studies ------------------------------

_Clinical Perspectives on Multiple Personality Disorder_ by Richard P. Kluft
and Catherine G. Fine. This anthology offers a variety of articles and
viewpoints.

_Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder (Foundations of
Modern Psychiatry)_ by Frank W. Putnam

_Multiple Personality Disorder_ by Barry Cohen

_Multiple Personality Disorder: Psychiatric Classification and Media
Influence (Oxford Monographs on Psychiatry, No. 1)_ by Carol S. North,
Daniel A. Riu, Jo-Ellen M. Ryall, and Richard D. Wetzel

_Multiple Personality Disorder: Diagnosis, Clinical Features, and Treatment
(Wiley Series in General and Clinical Psychiatry)_ by Colin A. Ross. Ross
has a good reputation among most people living with MPD.

_Multiple Personality, Allied Disorders, and Hypnosis_ by Eugene L. Bliss.

_People in Pieces: Multiple Personality in Milder Forms and Greater Numbers_
by Alana Marshall.

_The Fractured Mirror: Healing Multiple Personality Disorder_ by C.W. Duncan

_The Osiris Complex: Case Studies in Multiple Personality Disorder_ by Colin
A. Ross

_The Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder (Clinical Insights
Monograph)_ edited by Bennet G. Braun, M.D. Another anthology of articles,
generally very good.

_Through Divided Minds: Probing the Mysteries of Multiple Personalties --A
Doctor's Story_ by Dr. Robert Mayer

_Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder_ by Bennett Braun
 

Self-Help Books

_Living With Your Selves: A Survival Manual for People with Multiple
Personalities_ by Sandra J. Hocking

_Multiple Personality Disorder From the Inside Out_ published by The Sidran
Foundation. A collection of first-person essays from the editors of the
newsletter _Many Voices_.

_More Than One_ by Terri A. Clark, M.D.

_Multiple Personality Gift: A Workbook for You and Your Inside Family_ by
Jacklyn M. Pia

_The Family Inside: Working with the Multiple_ by Doris Bryant, Judy
Kessler, and Lynda Shirar

_United We Stand: A Book for People with Multiple Personalities by Eliana
Gil. This is most clear and comprehensive book you could get to explain MPD.
It's short, and small, and inexpensive, and perfect. Great to give to
friends, partners, family members to introduce MPD.

_The Silver Boat_ by Ann Adams. A charming fable about how a young girl in
trouble comes to meet her Others, and then to learn to use all of their
strengths when she has to be one again.
 

another aol resource is their "Online Psych" area--- much good info re:
dissociative disorders and MPD/DID. Obviously the people who put this area
together were not from the "old school" they're-just-making-it-up school.
 

Rainbow Colors actually did her thesis on dissociation. What follows is an exhaustive
list of books and technical literature:

Interesting books

Shatter
When Rabbit Howls (The Troops for Trudy Chase)
Sybil
The Minds of Billy Milligan
The Three Faces of Eve
I'm Eve (? Sizemore)
Through Divided Minds
Little Girl Lost
Jennifer and Her Selves (Gerald Schoenewolf)
Suffer The Child (Judith Spencer)
Prism, Andrea's World (Jonathan and Eugene Bliss)
Daddy's Girl (Charlotte Vale Allen)
Kiss Daddy Goodnight (Louise Armstrong)
My Father's House (Sylvia Fraser)
Father's Days (Katherine Brady)
Ritual Abuse: What It Is, Why It Happens, How To Help (Margaret Smith)
How To Survive Trauma (Benjamin Colodzin)
(there are also several books by Elaina Gil written about repressed
memories and dissociation that are very good. She writes books for
professionals and laypersons and all of her stuff is worth reading.
One I believe is called 'United We Stand' and is written specifically
for multiples and their families. It is written so that even little
kids and inside people will like it.)
Courage To Heal (Laura Davis and Ellen Bass)
Allies In Healing (Laura Davis and Ellen Bass)
The Secret Trauma (Diana Russell)
More Than One (Terri Clark)
Multiple Personality Disorder From the Inside Out
(Barry Cohen, Esther Giller)
The Fractured Mirror (C.W. Duncan)
Safe Passage to Healing (Chrystine Oksana)
Trauma and Survival (Elizabeth Waites)
Repressed Memories (Renee Fredrickson)
Healing Hidden Memories (Mary Jane Williams)
Treatment of Adult Survivors (Eliana Gil)
The Flock (Joan Frances Casey)
Satan's Children (Robert Mayer)
Voices (Trula Michaels LaCalle)
The Right to Innocence (Beverly Engel)
Secret Survivors (E. Sue Blume)
Reach for the Rainbow (Lynne D. Finney)
Restoring Innocence (Alfred Ells)
Healing the Child Within (Charles Whitfield)
Adult Children of Abusive Parents (Steven Farmer)
The Emotionally Abused Woman (Beverly Engel)
All Around the Town (Mary Higgins Clark)

Thesis References

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Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
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Arbetter, S. (1992). Multiple personality disorder: someone else lives
inside me.
Current Health 2, 17-19.

Barlam, C. (1989). Women on the verge: the surge in borderline
personality disorder.
Mademoiselle, 140.

Benner, D., & Joscelyne, B. (1984). Multiple personality as a
borderline disorder.
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 172,(2), 98-104.

Bliss, E. (1984). A symptom profile of patients with multiple
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The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 172,(4), 197-202.

Blum, H., & Marziali, E. (1988). Time limited, group psychotherapy for
borderline patients.
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 33, 364-369.

Castillo, R. (1990). Depersonalization and meditation.
Psychiatry, 53, 158-167.

Chu, J., & Dill, D. (1990). Dissociative symptoms in relation to
childhood physical and sexual abuse.
American Journal of Psychiatry, 147,(7), 887-891.

Coons, P. (1986b). Dissociative disorders: diagnosis and treatment.
Indiana Medicine, 79, 410-415.

Cornell, W. & Olio, K. (1991). Integrating affect in treatment with
adult survivors of physical and sexual abuse.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 61,(1), 59-69.

Dawson, D. (1988). Treatment of the borderline patient, relationship
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Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 33, 370-374.

Derogatis, L., Lipman, R., & Covi, L. (1973). SCL-90: an outpatient
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Eppel, A. (1988). Inpatient and day hospital treatment of the
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Evans, R., Ruff, R., Braff, D., & Ainsworth, T. (1984). MMPI
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Hughes Clark, N. (1986). Shatter.
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Kluft, R. (1984). Treatment of multiple personality disorder.
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Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.

Kluft, R. (1986). High-functioning multiple personality patients.
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