Books covering dissociation and dissociative disorders and potentially personality di

Hi, I'm just hoping some of you guys have some good suggestions for books about dissociation. Stories are ok but I was kind of hoping the books would be more objective. I want to better understand myself and my problems.

If you guys have any recommendations at all, even if they are only somewhat related to dissociation, then please don't hold them back if you think they offer any valuable information.

Thanks, guys.

theres not much out there right now for present up to date information.... short version america went through a major change in mental health system including things like what is and isnt called dissociation, and dissociative disorders. sure there is a bunch of older stuff that can lead a person to get mis diagnosed with something else because of the change over herein america example amazon, youtube and others...have some non professional stuff some of it based on other countries or older outdated information but for actual professional resources you will need to contact a mental health professional who can tell you what dissociation is where you are, and point you to books that are based on your own situations.

other than that all I can tell you is google and you will get millions upon millions of results for any topic in the world.

for me I only use the info from my own treatment providers, that way I know what I am reading is up to date and actually fits what ever I am going through and does not go against my own treatment plans with my treatment providers.

I have a library of them.

Like you, I wanted validation for what I was experiencing and trying to understand.

“The Body Keeps The Score” by Bessel Van Der Kolk

That is the book that has become the encyclopedia of what has happened to me and the understanding of it. It is written in a very common wordage that is very understandable to me.

I could not say enough about how this book has helped me understand and work through some very hard places in my healing.

If you have access to utube, he has some very good talks there too.

Hugs to you.

I agree. The Body Keeps the Score is an awesome book. I highly recommend it.

+1 for body keeps the score

I found an extensive list of resources and literature at this link:
Resources

My t and I have started going through the book, "Coping With Trauma-Related Dissociation." So far, I really like it. We just finished chapter 2. If anybody else is reading this book, it would be great to communicate about it.

Thanks for the recommendations for the body keeps the score, I had to order something from Amazon yesterday and I saw the book there as a suggestion so I added it to my order. Will let you know what I think of it!

I have the therapists version of that one, is the one you are using pretty good?

Yes, I'm really liking it so far. We're only starting chapter 3, but I can already tell it is going to help me. I've tried a lot of other therapy techniques that have not done a whole lot for me (EMDR, DBT, EFT). I think this is targeted more for what I actually need.

The Sum of my parts.

Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine
Dissociative Identity Disorder Source Book

An excellent but complex article.
Revisiting the etiological aspects of dissociative identity disorder: a biopsychosocial perspective
http://www.isst-d.org/downloads/News...er_Article.pdf
Found at:
Dissociation and Trauma: Join ISSTD!

Thanks for all the great replies, guys

there are many book on Amazon, just by typing the words dissociation or other words relevent to what you are looking for you will find hundreds of books. keep in mind though to check the copyright dates before you buy. anything that was published before may 2013 you run the risk of encountering information that has since been proven to not be part of dissociation / dissociative disorders, and also outdated, no longer used definitions, treatments, tests, diagnostics and well you get the point.

keep in mind that the more recent and up to date standards of what id dissociation, and the many new dissociation disorders including the new standards, definitions and so on for DID are the books that were published after the change over to a new mental health system (may 2013).

also something to keep in mind is some books are wrote for the direct purpose of educating treatment providers on the newer standards, definitions and all that... my point they may be a bit hard to read with all the professional wording.

My T and I work from treating trauma-related dissociation by Steele Boon and Hart which is a pretty solid read and works for all stages of therapy. It was published in 2017 I think.

Here’s another.
http://www.isst-d.org/downloads/guid...evised2011.pdf
Guidelines for DID treatment. References the DSM-IV-TR, so it’s a slightly older one. If I had a therapist who didn’t “get it” I’d ask them to read this.

That's a very reputable site, the guidelines haven't changed since 2011 which is why they still use them.

in my location some of these guidelines have changed for example here where I am treatment providers do not assess whether a person has DID or other dissociative disorders by being the one to ask the client if they have depersonalization, derealization and so on.

here where I am the treatment provider (including my own here) must wait until the client says they are feeling those symptoms in their own words. part of the new standards since may 2013 to prevent treatment providers from purposely or accidentally leading someone to saying they have a problem that they may not have.

there also have been major changes with the DSM version used in the article vs what is used now.... for example here in america we no longer have a diagnosis label called DDNOS. not saying the problems dont exist just that the name no longer exists. we now have 3 or more new disorders that now cover the same problems 2 are dissociative disorders and the rest fall into other categories. to actually read them you can read the newer version of the DSM called DSM 5.

there are other areas in this article my treatment provider and I have gone through together to find what parts of the article fits me and what doesnt. what we finally ended up doing is not using that at all because it was so misleading to my own situation.

not saying what you quoted wont help others just that it didnt help me or my treatment providers because things have drastically changed in how mental disorders in america are now treated including dissociative disorders.