The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

The groundbreaking first-person account of successful recovery from dissociative identity disorder, now featuring a new preface by the author

When Joan Frances Casey, a married twenty-six-year-old graduate student, €œawoke€ on the ledge of a building ready to jump, it wasn€t the first time she couldn€t explain her whereabouts. Soon after, Lynn Wilson, an experienced psychiatric social worker, diagnosed Joan with multiple personality disorder. She prescribed a radical program of reparenting therapy to individually treat her patient€s twenty-four separate personalities. As Lynn came to know Joan€s distinct selves€"Josie, the self-destructive toddler; Rusty, the motherless boy; Renee, the people pleaser€"she uncovered a pattern of emotional and physical abuse that had nearly consumed a remarkable young woman.
 
Praise for The Flock

€œA testimony to [Casey€s] courage and the dedication of her therapist, who believed that a profoundly fragmented self has the capacity to heal within a loving therapeutic relationship.€€"The New York Times Book Review
 
€œAbsolutely mesmerizing . . . the first coherent autobiographical study of its kind.€€"The Detroit News
 
€œA compelling psychological odyssey offering unique insights into a nightmare world.€€"Kirkus Reviews
 
€œExtraordinary . . . deftly told and studded with striking images.€€"Publishers Weekly