Beyond Integration: One Multiple's Journey (Norton Professional Books)

Bryant, Doris and Judy Kessler

ISBN 10: 0393702065 / ISBN 13: 9780393702064

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1996

About this Item

First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Minor edge wear. Alternating voices, therapist and former client show how the adult can reclaim selfhood that was violently denied to the child. Beyond Integration describes the challenges a former multiple faces after "the family inside"--the inner personalities created during childhood to cope in a violently abusive world--integrates.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond Integration: One Multiple's Journey (Norton Professional Books)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393702065
• ISBN 13: 9780393702064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology

About this title

Synopsis

This book focuses on the difficulties and rewards of postintegration work with multiples.

Alternating voices, therapist and former client show how the adult can reclaim selfhood that was violently denied to the child.

From the Back Cover

Beyond Integration describes the challenges a former multiple faces after "the family inside" - the inner personalities created during childhood to cope in a violently abusive world - integrates. This is the first book to deal with therapy beyond integration. It is also unique in its presentation, alternating between the voices of the therapist, Doris Bryant, and the former multiple/former client, Judy Kessler. In this way, two perspectives on the different phases of therapy following integration are given. The book begins with Kessler's childhood story and proceeds through the process of integration, the three stages of post-integration, the recovery of lost developmental stages, and the development of new patterns of coping with ongoing issues. Kessler's personal experiences are interwoven with Bryant's responses, observations, and comments. Their insights are extremely valuable and often enlightening. Although this is the story of a single individual's triumph over multiple personality disorder, its elements apply to all multiples and their therapists, who will benefit from both the work that Kessler has done to reclaim her shattered self and her willingness to share the realities of a life irrevocably altered by abuse.