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Old Feb 20, 2015, 12:14 PM
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Originally Posted by flockpride View Post
I was wondering if folks have any DID focused books they like or have found helpful.

I initially read Robert Oxnam's A Fractured Mind and was encouraged that such an accomplished person could live with this situation. Gave me hope really.
right now your best bet on finding up to date material on DID would be your treatment providers or a treatment provider in your off computer location. Here in the USA all books (though they do still help some people) are obsolete/outdated due to they do not take into consideration the present diagnostic criteria. all books that I have at work and home and see on store shelves all contain the DSM IV TR standards not the present DSM % published in 2013, information like how a person became DID types of alters personal experiences related in the books sometimes are things that the new diagnostics have ruled out ....example in your reading you may find books that state DID is a religious mental disorder where as the new diagnostics have ruled that out. anything containing DID problems associated with religious background basically renders the diagnosis moot (not DID) now...

my point is if you are going to be reading outdated books the best thing you can do is contact your treatment provider. they will be able to steer you towards the books that are more suited to your problems.

that said if you do not care whether the material you read is factual or contains misleading information/ not up to date/ ....there is an extensive book list that everyone here on psych central has been adding to that I was pointed to when I first came here, ...most if not all of the forum boards have a sticky thread at the top of the forums so that members can keep adding to them and not have to have many separate threads cluttering up the boards and getting lost /buried \pushed down in the stacks of threads ....

http://forums.psychcentral.com/disso...treatment.html