Which One Am I?: Multiple Personalities and Deep Southern Secrets - Softcover

Smith, Thomas S.; Williams, James Darrell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1479120774 ISBN 13: 9781479120772

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

There are at least 16 personalities inside James Darrell Williams. But who is he really? And why? “Which One Am I?” is a singular story about universal truths, horrors and grace. Setting their work apart from other memoirs, the authors explore the nature of family and how Darrell – and all of us -- are shaped by culture, history and geography. After two years of research, Darrell and his partner Thomas Smith dug deeply into family secrets, Southern culture and Darrell’s own psyche to explore portrayals of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) in popular culture and the psychiatric community, linking them with the events that made Darrell the man he is.

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From the Author

After spending more than 20 years as a journalist, publicist and educator, something told me it was time for a change. Though I searched for something to keep me busy in my middle years, it seemed like doors in the professional world were closed to me. In 2008, when I met Darrell in a Long Beach bar, I immediately knew this kind and thoughtful man would have an effect on my personal life. There was no way of knowing that he would change my professional life as well. He wanted someone to tell his life story. Of course, I knew from dating him that he had multiple personalities. That didn't faze me, having become used to people changing personalities immediately after they left the stage. As we came to better know each other, I knew what he had experienced growing up with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) was a story the rest of the world needed to hear.

About the Author

Thomas Smith & James Darrell Williams first met in 2008. They live peacefully with all the kids inside Darrell and a Miniature Pinscher named Tigger in Long Beach, CA.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1479120774
• ISBN 13: 9781479120772
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308
• Editor: Jones Kathy, Compton Erika