Minds in many pieces : revealing the spiritual side of multiple personality disorder

Allison, a psychotherapist, tells how his experiences treating patients with Multiple Personality Disorder taught him to integrate parapsychologic forces and a patient's Inner Self Helper to guide the patient back to psychological wholeness. He illustrates his ideas using many case histories. In this second edition, he answers many of the questions that first intrigued him 15 years ago. First published in 1980 by Rawson, Wade Publishers, Inc., New York, as Minds in Many Pieces: The Making of a Very Special Doctor . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) This new edition of Dr. Allison's 1970 report of his experiences with dissociating patients in his Santa Cruz, California, psychiatric practice adds the dimension of a 15 year follow-up of some of his original patients. His discovery of an Inner Self Helper in some of his patients with Multiple Personality Disorder permitted major advances in therapeutic techniques in these most difficult cases. This spiritual advisor and cotherapist allowed him to help integrate the personalities in some of the most disabled individuals in that small community. This book adds his initial understanding of the spiritual dimensions of the human mind, something which has been ignored by the "scientific" students of psychology. How he worked with the parapsychological features these "multiples" presented to him is another feature which most other therapists/writers dared not mention for fear of ridicule from their peers. Dr. Allison lays it all out as it happened, so that others can learn from his pioneering experiences. Dr. Allison also was one of the first to present a basic treatment plan for multiples, along with stories of men who had this controversial post-traumatic emotional disorder. Join Dr. Allison on his continuing journey into the bipartite human mind, where demons frolic and angels do not fear to tread. In the first edition of this book (1980), Dr. Allison told astonishing stories about his dissociated patients parading alter-personalities and other psychic beings before him. Now, in this 15-year follow-up, he answers many of the questions that intrigued him then. In doing so, he opens up new vistas for students of the human psyche Dr. Allisons discovery of the Inner Self Helper has illuminated the spiritual aspect of the human mind an aspect feared and thus ignored by others in the field. In fact, guided by his multiple personality patients Inner Self Helpers, the author successfully exorcized thoughtforms masquerading as evil demons. This permitted him to get back to doing the essential hypnotherapy. Only by understanding parapsychological forces, as well as his patients deepest fears and hatreds, did he shepherd many of them back to psychological wholeness. This book describes the Inner Self helpers and tells how they operate and how their protective energy can be tapped in an alliance beneficial to the patient.