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"Amongst Ourselves" porvides a first-person account of what it's like to live with DID and strategies to help sufferers improves their lives. It explains how to find a therapist, manage confusing and self-destructive behaviors, evaluate treatment procedures, and "come out" to others.
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As you read this first chapter, you will gain a better understanding of what Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) actually is, as well as many of its symptoms. Read the first page
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As you read this first chapter, you will gain a better understanding of what Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) actually is, as well as many of its symptoms. Read the first page
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A good first book in learning about DID,
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This review is from: Amongst Ourselves: Self-help Guide to Living with Dissociative Disorder (Paperback)
The book was useful in ways of understanding the main issues related to having DID. It covers a wide range of issues and is the only self help book for people who live with DID. Chapter four expresses how DID explains pieces of a life that were previously difficult to understand, and i found this chapter the best part of the book. It provides useful information especially for those seeking therapy to help with their problems.Expectations about what to expect from therapy and how to work with and choose a therapist was extremely imformative. The section for partners was rather focused on the negative aspects, such as anger, confusion and shame, but nevertheless did encourage partners to support and understand. However, I felt the book did not really explore the main issues fully and at times seem to make light of the disorder, maybe this was an attempt to leave the reader feeling hopeful. I also felt that one of the authors, who herself is an individual who lives with DID, could have chosen more appropriate issues from her own experiences to share with us in this book. The final paragraph in my opinion was unnecessary and seemed to be rather presumptious and threw a bleak picture on the reader. Overall the book is a good starting point, but readers must be prepared that the information is limited and further reading will be essential.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amongst Ourselves by Tracy Alderman and Karen Marshall,
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This review is from: Amongst Ourselves: Self-help Guide to Living with Dissociative Disorder (Paperback)
I read Amongst Ourselves as a therapist and partner of someone with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). This book presents a very different approach to a little known psychiatric disorder. In contrast to theoretical books, Amongst Ourselves is gentle and positive without minimising the pain survivors suffer. One author, Karen, uses her own experience and allows her other parts to speak about how it was and is for them. Unlike other psychology books which give snapshots of various clients with a condition, Karen provides an in depth case study throughout the book.
For survivors of early, extensive, prolonged and terrifying childhood abuse reading books about it can trigger retraumatisation, especially if they have child parts who are stuck back there and believe it is still happening to them. Alderman and Marshall have compiled a resource with very little overtly triggering material. The only kind of abuse described is ritual and satanic abuse, which is little known and may be useful for sufferers to identify and label what happened to them. While they talk about what is hard living with DID, they repeatedly emphasise the DID is a creative survival strategy, and point out what is uniquely positive about being multiple. I consider that reading this book will allow people with DID to understand and cope with what happens to them while building or maintaining a sense of pride in their abilities to survive horrific experiences. It is also very useful to inform practitioners, few of whom even know about DID.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An incredible gift to anyone whose life is touched by DID.,
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This review is from: Amongst Ourselves: Self-help Guide to Living with Dissociative Disorder (Paperback)
When I first began my process of dealing with my being DID, I read everything I could find on the disorder. But nothing I read, until this book, gave me insight into how to manage my life. This book helps me live my life better each and everyday. I hope that for others with this disorder, this is the first book on the subject that they read. It gives me such hope! Thank you Karen and Tracy.
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