The presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states (each with its own relatively enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and self).

At least two of these identities or personality states recurrently take control of the person's behavior.

Inability to recall important personal information that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness.

The disturbance is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., blackouts or chaotic behavior during Alcohol Intoxication) or a general medical condition (e.g., complex partial seizures).

Note: In children, the symptoms are not attributable to imaginary playmates or other fantasy play.

Source: DSM-IV Guidebook, 1995; American Psychiatric Press, Inc.


Amongst Ourselves : A Self-Help
Guide to Living With
Dissociative Identity Disorder

by Tracy, Ph.D. Alderman, Karen, L.C.S.W.
Marshall, Karen Marshall. The first book written expressly for individuals with Dissociative Identity Disorder, "Amongst Ourselves" provides
a first-person account of what's like to live with DID and strategies to help sufferers improve their lives. Includes twelve worksheets.


Minds In Many Pieces: Revealing the Spiritual Side of Multiple Personality Disorder
by Ralph B. Allison, Ted Schwarz. 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.

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When Rabbit Howls
by Truddi Chase. To escape the horror of violent abuse, the two-year-old child "went to sleep" and created the inner world of "the Troops," the 92 voices that shielded her from pain, but that she didn't know existed until adulthood. This is a journey through the fragmented world of the multiple personality--told by the Troop.