Accounts of Multiple Personality Disorder have usually been written by mental health professionals as texts or case studies. Now, in Becoming One, Sarah Olson has allowed us the rare privilege of entering her internal world in her first-person account of her journey from fragmentation to wholeness. Two little girls, the author and her sister, were routinely terrorized and assaulted over a period of years by a family friend. One grew up closed and withdrawn, the other angry and self-destructive. And, most painful of all, their common suffering resulted in estrangement from each other. Becoming One began as Olson's attempt to provide a written account of her memories for her sister as a means of reconciliation and healing. The author's courage and generosity in candidly sharing her remarkable experiences provide important insights into the world of dissociation. Here is at once a highly personal look into an individual life, the dynamics of a troubled family, and the healing power of the therapeutic process.

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Several abused as a young girl, Sarah Olson began at age three to dissociate (to split herself into a number of "alters"). While internal personalities were an essential part of her survival from extreme trauma, Sarah was not herself fully cognizant of their existence until she underwent therapy with the gifted psychotherapist, Howard Asher. With Asher's support and guidance, Sarah eventually overcame numerous life obstacles and challenges to become fully integrated. Becoming One documents Sarah's four-year process of discovery and recovery. Utilizing letters she wrote to Asher, and transcripts from key audiotaped therapy sessions, Sarah created a book which offers a model of healing and hope to the many survivors of childhood abuse, whether or not they personally experience dissociation. Becoming One is an important contribution to the growing movement of survivors and their allies working to put an end to childhood sexual abuse. Becoming One is a hopeful book which both dignifies people with Dissociative Identity Disorder, and sensitizes the rest of us to what that means and what can be done. Highly recommended. -- Midwest Book Review

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