Truddi Chase
Paperback | Pages: 400 pages Rating: 4.04 | 15590 Users | 580 Reviews
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| Title | : | When Rabbit Howls |
| Author | : | Truddi Chase |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 400 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1990 by Berkley Books (first published June 8th 1987) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Psychology. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Mental Health. Mental Illness |
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Truddi Chase began therapy to discover why she suffered from blackouts. What surfaced was terrifying: she was inhabited by 'the Troops'-92 individual personalities. This groundbreaking true story is made all the more extraordinary in that it was written by the Troops themselves. What they reveal is a spellbinding descent into a personal hell-and an ultimate deliverance for the woman they became.Point Books Conducive To When Rabbit Howls
| Original Title: | When Rabbit Howls |
| ISBN: | 0515103292 (ISBN13: 9780515103298) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Epithetical Books When Rabbit Howls
Ratings: 4.04 From 15590 Users | 580 ReviewsCriticism Epithetical Books When Rabbit Howls
I found this book alternatively fascinating, unbelievable, horrifying and silly. I had heard elsewhere that there has been some speculation that the book is not legitimate but in fact is fabricated. When the story line became a little too weird (as in parts about reading minds and paranormal stuff) then that speculation kept running through my mind and I became a very cynical reader.I also found the book hard to read in places because of the way it was written (supposedly) from a first personA friend had this book delivered to me through Amazon just as I was about to take a 4 day greyhound trip cross country. I read it through twice, crying in front of strangers at several intervals. The tale is heartbreaking. Multiple Personalities and Dissociative Identity Disorder are two topics that have always fascinated and horrified me. There are some experiences that a person cannot face having lived through, the mind breaks, shatters, hides bits to protect itself and even changes facts. Or
This book is damned disturbing. I honestly don't know what to think about it. I saw the "author" on Oprah, and I still don't know if I believe it or not. I have a degree in psychology, and multiple personalities/abnormal psych have always been a particular area of interest to me but this....I really don't know if I can believe it or not....If it's true, then it's definitely one of the most harrowing and disturbing stories I have ever read, and if it's not, it's some damned convincing writing.
Do I believe in hundreds of distinct multiple personalities existing within one person? Nope, though I do believe in dissociative identity disorder's. Do I believe she had/has a total break with reality due to childhood trauma? Yes. Do I believe she burns out lightbulbs with the extra electricity generated by the complexity of her mind crammed so full of personalities fighting one another for dominance? Nope. Do I believe her stepfather sexually abused her and it was annoying of her to make the
Sometimes, our minds can't even begin to comprehend what is happening, and so to protect ourselves, a darker place is created where we can hide. But when these dark places are too deep the damage is so severe we cant always find our way back out, so alternate realities take over. I can certainly see how the mind of a child so young could split (even multiple times), and how her true self left entirely. Think about recent news: Young kids being raped at 11, 12 by couches and clergymen; how most
I think I'm missing something ... Reading the intro and then the reviews of others, I expected that this would be the autobiographical account of The Troops as they initiated therapy, became aware of the others' existence and came to understand the reality of their abuse. What I expected, I suppose, was to read "the manuscript " so often referred to.Instead, this reads like a type of historical fiction, the narrative of Trudi and Stanley as they worked together. Perhaps written by The Troops but
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