Product Description

Got Parts? was written by a survivor of DID in association with her therapist and therapy group. This book is filled with successful coping techniques and strategies to enhance the day-to-day functioning of adult survivors of DID in relationships, work, parenting, self-confidence, and self-care. Got Parts will help you introduce yourself to your internal family and improve its communication, integration, and well-being. Although written to carefully avoid triggering, it delivers well-grounded guidelines for living that DID people need to do on the way to recovery. Coping strategies included help you with issues related to triggers, flashbacks, and body memories. Got Parts also includes a detailed list of outside resources you can draw on. This book is intended to be used in conjunction with a therapist and is not a substitute for therapy.

Once thought of as a rare and mysterious psychiatric curiosity, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is now understood to be a fairly common outcome of severe trauma in young children—most typically extreme and repeated physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse, and often lack of attachment. Formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder, DID is a condition in which a person has two or more distinct identities or personality states that recurrently take control of the person's consciousness and behavior. Symptoms can include depression, mood swings, panic or anxiety attacks, substance abuse, memory loss, propensity for trances, sleep and eating disorders, distrust, detachment, lack of self-care, and distress or impairment at work.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #235784 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 132 pages

Peter A. Maves, Ph.D., ISSD Fellow
"Got Parts is a very well conceived and useful tool, particularly for those treating DID from a more functional perspective."

Ian Landry, MA MSW RSW, Nova Scotia, Canada
"I strongly recommend this book as a easily read, straightforward and insightful recovery tool for my clients with DID."

Patricia Sherman, LCSW
"Got Parts is great tool for working therapeutically with ones internal family."

Customer Reviews

Got Parts - an important book for anyone interested in DID.
..
When I received the book Got Parts, I immediately felt it would be interesting and meaningful. The style from the front cover to the back page is uncomplicated and approachable. The font is clear, the words are practical and to the point. I was not disappointed and found the book to be 'readable' in every sense.

It is not a large, heavy book, but it really has a lot of information, support and assistance in it.

It is written in a way that leads you through the book: - A gentle introduction, leading to gentle exercises and information. Towards the end of the book, there is a gradual preparation for the book to end, and you feel a sense of having moved towards something.

Strangely, the end of the book is not the end of the book - thoughts linger on and the exercises lead on to more learning too.

For a subject that is often discussed in very complicated terms I found this very refreshing.

It was informative enough for a first time read on such a delicate, complicated subject. If someone had recently been diagnosed as DID, this would be an excellent first step for them. It is full of options about learning more and viewing DID in different lights.

Personally, I learned so much from it during one reading but will definitely be dipping into it again and again.

Although the book is gentle and encouraging, it can also be very firm - particularly the chapter towards the end. The last sentence sums it up by stating that writing the book is worth it, if someone else is helped.

Well, I feel I have been helped in being able to understand DID more. Reading the book was worthwhile and valuable to me.