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[alyson]

Almost didn't want to count this, because I've read it before...but if I let that stop me then you won't hear from me too often because I love to reread favorite books. So, to the review.

As it is a very clinical analysis of one case of multiple personality, I first read this book as a form of casual research. It was among a number of such books that I located, another of which will be noted later in this forum. It alternates between dramatic narrative and scientific treatise, and I'm willing to bet that the authors kept strictly to quotes and situations that they could verify and recount accurately, rather than fictionalize at all.

It's very interesting, although after the first read you may want to skip the long sections during which the authors expound on their professional questions and opinions, and refer to all sorts of case studies, and fret about how they're doing.

[shaw]

I liked When Rabbit Howls. I didn't buy into a lot of the mysticism, but it was neat reading a book written BY the person who claims to have MPD.