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The groundbreaking first-person account of successful recovery from dissociative identity disorder, now featuring a new preface by the author When Joan Frances Casey, a married twenty-six-year-old graduate student, �awoke� on the ledge of a building ready to jump, it wasn�t the first time she couldn�t explain her whereabouts. Soon after, Lynn Wilson, an experienced psychiatric social worker, diagnosed Joan with multiple personality disorder. She prescribed a radical program of reparenting therapy to individually treat her patient�s twenty-four separate personalities. As Lynn came to know Joan�s distinct selves�Josie, the self-destructive toddler; Rusty, the motherless boy; Renee, the people pleaser�she uncovered a pattern of emotional and physical abuse that had nearly consumed a remarkable young woman. Praise for The Flock �A testimony to [Casey�s] courage and the dedication of her therapist, who believed that a profoundly fragmented self has the capacity to heal within a loving therapeutic relationship.��The New York Times Book Review �Absolutely mesmerizing . . . the first coherent autobiographical study of its kind.��The Detroit News �A compelling psychological odyssey offering unique insights into a nightmare world.��Kirkus Reviews �Extraordinary . . . deftly told and studded with striking images.��Publishers Weekly (less)
The groundbreaking first-person account of successful recovery from dissociative identity disorder, now featuring a new preface by the author When Joan Frances Casey, a married twenty-six-year-old graduate student, �awoke� on the ledge (…more)
The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality | 
