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The Family Inside: Working with the Multiple (Hardcover)
by Doris Bryant (Author), Judy Kessler (Author), Lynda Shirar (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 268 pages
  • Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd (6 Jan 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0393701425
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393701425
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
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This practical book on working with multiple personality disorder demystifies MPD and redefines it as a creative and sensible way of surviving a childhood of extreme trauma and absolute powerlessness. Using Judy Kessler's own story as an example, and referring to work by Virginia Satir, Erik Erikson and Gestalt, the authors address the complex results of this survival skill and the challenges that MPD clients and their therapists face in reintegrating the shattered self.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars THE MOST WONDERFUL BOOK EVER ON MPD, 20 Jan 1999
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I am a multiple. I have read several books by the "experts", i.e. Kluft, Putnam, etc. I could't put myself into the "categories" or "time frames" and felt I wasn't making progress the way "I should". The Family Inside makes total sense to me. The authors allow a multiple her uniqueness - no two multiples are alike as no two people are alike. There are many ways I identify with Judy Kessler. Some of my alters work with "subdivisions" of themselves, as did Judy's. These are the ones that hold hurt, etc, and don't really talk. I was relieved to read this. I related to Judy's struggle in having to relate a memory over and over before it could even start to become a "memory of the past" - relating it as many times as it took. I learned that comforting the "children" is okay. It is not silly or odd to yearn for unmet childhood needs. I learned that multiples do not develop through many stages of their lives as they are too busy dissociating in order to survive. Wow, this makes plain good common sense to me. A multiple is too busy being a multiple to develop - we are most intelligent little beings who found a way to dissociate in order to survive - NOT DIE!! - we didn't have feelings - we couldn't show emotions. These are all things I knew inside but didn't know how to verbalize until I read The Family Inside. These little people still need to find their way through the lost develomental stages in order to recover. God bless Doris Bryant and Lynda Shirar for their down to earth insightful method of helping a multiple. They have a wonderful sense of what it takes to give us our lives back. I feel better about myself now. My feelings don't seem so strange - I know my feelings are me and are okay no matter how awful they are- because of this book. God bless Judy Kessler for sharing herself with me. I gave this book to my therapist - who loves it as well. I, too, am blessed with a very special therapist - she encourages US to be US and ME to be ME. I felt I had a true kindred spirit in Judy when I read her advice to those working with multiples. It takes a very dedictated person. There is no room for "screwing around". She lets therapists know what we need - what is acceptable and what isn't. They must be totally dedicated to sticking it out through the nightmare of horrors we slowly entrust to them. These authors show a well deserved respect for MPD. They project the feeling of it being a priviledge to work with a multiple. Thank you for the best book ever on MPD. I would love to write directly to Judy and Doris.
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