I want to express my thoughts on how best to use the 3 Volumes of the Engaging Multiple Personalities Series.

For those with DID, If you have a therapist, then Volume 1 may be very helpful to clarify issues you might be working on with your therapist. Given that DID manifests in many ways, some of the case histories might be useful by way of saying “this is somewhat similar to my experience” or “this is not what I experience.”  The therapeutic keys can also be good points to bring forward with your therapist to the extent they ring true to your experience.

For therapists, and for individuals with DID who may have found a therapist willing to work with them but who has little to no experience with DID, Volume 2 will be most helpful for the therapist while Volume 1 can be a bridge through which you can work toward a positive therapeutic journey.

For those with DID who do not yet have a therapist, Volume 3 was written specifically for you. It can help you understand that there is a definite context to your experience. That in fact, dissociation is a critical response to enable you to survive abuse rather than something crazy. Dissociation is not insanity, far from it. While Volume 3 is not self-therapy, it may give you a strong foundation, self-empowerment if you will, upon which you can build a therapeutic alliance that will work for both you and a therapist in the future.

I find it very interesting that while the books get a very positive response from those with DID as well as from therapists that have read them as a result of patients’ suggestions. I find it painful to have to repeat so often that the mainstream psychiatric community, and most therapists, still do not appreciate the impact of early childhood abuse that results in DID.

There are very few reviews on Amazon, where the series is sold. So, the outreach for these volumes is limited to those in the DID Facebook groups in which I post, and to which those members share. If people do find the different volumes helpful, and you feel safe enough to do so, please post a review on Amazon. I think it is likely best to do it anonymously or under a pseudonym. In that way, perhaps a wider audience of therapists, and those with DID that do not connect with the Facebook groups, may encounter the books.

Finally, I also learned recently that one of the libraries that purchased Volume 1 no longer has it on the shelves. Why? Because it has been read so much that it has fallen apart. If you contact your local library, perhaps they will purchase a hard copy which would then be a resource in that community.  But, at the same time, I know that the ebook version will not fall apart when it is used – no matter how many times! So, I am happy to donate the ebook to any library that wishes to have a copy regardless of whether or not they purchase a hard copy. There are certainly more libraries in the world than I can afford to do this with, but I am happy to start with 100. If your library is interested, please have them email me at engagingmultiples@gmail.com.