Recovery is my best revenge: My experience of trauma, abuse and dissociative identity disorder

What is it like to live with dissociative identity disorder? How does the brain respond to chronic, extreme trauma? Is recovery possible from such suffering?

In this combined first and second volumes of her collected essays, Carolyn Spring writes candidly from a number of perspectives about her experiences of living with trauma-related dissociation, and her journey of recovery over ten years.

Topics covered include such as shame, denial, child sexual abuse, the complex meanings of 'madness' a...