The Magic Daughter

Résumé du livre

Describes the author's day to day experience of living with Multiple Personality Disorder as well as her work with a remarkable therapist over the course of nearly a decade, trying to decode the workings of her mind & the reality of her past. Together, they uncover the memories of violence, abuse, & manipulation by her brothers & parents, who saw her as the long-awaited "magic daughter" who could save their dysfunctional family. She learns to sleep through the night without waking in terror as memory after memory surfaces; she teaches herself to differentiate between remembered pain & current illness, & much more.