Multiple Personality Disorder: Diagnosis, Clinical Features, and Treatment

I have been in one of Dr. Colin Ross's dissociative programs (in-patient and out) and have learned a great deal. His information about DID is thorough, informative and wonderfully intriguing. And I consider myself knowledgeable about the subject (since I am a multiple myself). This book covers everything from the history of dissociation to specific aspects of DID such as alter types, symptoms, and comparisons to other commonly mistaken diagnoses. I recommend this book to doctors, mental health professionals, friends and family of multiples, multiples, people with any kind of dissociative disorder, and pretty much the public at large! This book may seem to be way too expensive, but the information you will receive goes well beyond the cost.

This is an excellent resource for the diagnosis and treatment of dissociation. I did my clinical training with Dr. Ross and found him to be knowlegeable, accurate, and compassionate in his assessment of dissociation and it's treatment. The book is every bit as helpful and necessary to an understanding of dissociation whether you agree with the diagnosis or not.

This book provides excellent, in-depth information. It is written for professionals, but provided in a format which does not alienate the intelligent layperson. It is a great resource for those who already have an understanding of dissociative identity disorder and are searching for more detail. Dr. Ross explores all areas of the disorder. The areas I found most intriguing included the descriptions of common roles of identities, responses to professionals who argue that dissociative identity disorder does not exist, and a wide variety of statistics based on solid experimental research. ...I have found it very helpful in my determination to be an active participant in my treatment. This book is well worth its price!!!

Dr. Ross has produced in this book a work that is brilliant, courageous, humane, practical and accessible to educated laypersons.