Multiple Journeys to One: Spiritual Stories of Integrating from Dissociative Identity Disorder - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 096724580X ISBN 13: 9780967245805

Publisher: Dancing Serpents Pr, 1999

Synopsis

Multiple Journeys to One offers eight personal and courageous stories which explore the spiritual and psychological healing and integration of Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly Multiple Personality Disorder). Although the writers focus their stories on the integration/fusion process of their many inside people rather than on the abuse, some of their backgrounds include, incest, familial torture, Satanic Ritual Abuse, and programming. By learning to acknowledge, accept, and love each aspect of themselves, the writers exemplify the possibility of healing our divided, compartmentalized world.

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About the Author

Judy Dragon, C.H.T. has been a Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner (hands-on healing art of energy balance) since 1979, later becoming a Clinical Hypnotherapist, teacher, writer and community educator. She has lectured at conferences designed to address the needs of abuse survivors and multiples as well. In April of 1994, she created a two day symposium in Northern California for therapists, survivors, and the community, on the healing and spirituality of physical and sexual abuse.

Terry Popp, Ph.D., Creative Writing. She has written short stories, essays and novels, some of which have dealt with her abuse background and multiplicity. She teaches creative writing using mythology, fairy tales, and films, and has a writing/editing consulting business, The Third Path.

Judy and Terry have spent years rediscovering themselves, guided by their belief that the flowers of spirituality, hope, and inner truth are incubated in the dark, rich humus of the unconscious. This belief has fueled their collaboration as keynote speakers at San Francisco's The Morris Center for Healing from Child Abuse, and the workshops and presentations on multiplicity and integration they have made available to therapists and survivors.

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From Chapter 7: I thought integration followed a linear path: I would become co-conscious with my alters; my alters would merge into each other, then into me; I would be integrated. Period. End. I discovered, however, that my integration, like everything else, followed the Great Wheel of birth, death, rebirth. Alters were born from me. Alters died as separate personalities and became one with me. Every day I undergo a regeneration.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dancing Serpents Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 096724580X
• ISBN 13: 9780967245805
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Rogers Jonathan
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204
• Editor: Dragon Judy, Popp Terry