Books I Have Written About DID

I apologize for taking so long to get back to this. No excuse, just took me too long. 

I have pasted the Table of Contents to Surviving the Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder below:

Table of Contents

Introduction 5

The Road Less Taken 13

The Road Not Taken 19

Therapists, the Forgotten Victims of Trauma 22

I Refuse to Be Defined by Trauma 31

It's Time for Therapist's to Re-examine Their Thoughts on Their Client's Ability to Get Well 35

The Awesome Power of Words 42

Who Is to Blame? 54

The Deep Abyss Called Depression 63

Brain Anatomy in Brief 69

Traumatic Memory Retrieval and Dissociative Identity Disorder 80

The Freedom of Responsibility 93

Child Alters 104

The Orchestra Analogy 118

Body Image and DID 123

Trauma-Informed Care 130

Change the Language to Change the Conversation 142

Somatic Symptoms and Dissociative Identity Disorder 153

Insights on Suicide from Someone Who Has Survived 170

The Opioid Crisis in the United States: Who Is to Blame? 184

Life Isn’t Easy, Life Isn’t Fair 208

The Invisible Child 217

Our Men Aren’t Okay 229

Women Sexual Abusers of Children; The Silent Crisis 245

The Power of Fusion 260

The Mistake of Rushing Integration 275

When Fantasy is Your Friend 291

A Story of Friendship 298

The Neuroscience of Shame 307

Psychotherapy 325

Overcoming Shame to Live a New Life 344

Dissociation: In Laymen’s Terms 356

Escaping from the Cage of Childhood Trauma 362

Four Reasons Dissociative Identity Disorder is Controversial Among Mental Health Professionals 369

Learning to Live with Dissociative Identity Disorder 375

Living with Dissociative Amnesia 385

The Painful Phenomenon of Switching Headaches 391

Choosing to Remain a Victim 397

Making the Choice to Get Well 404

The Huge Treatment Problems When Treating People with the Diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder 409

A Glossary of Terms to Help You Understand Dissociative Identity Disorder Better 425

Resources to Find Help for Dissociative Identity Disorder 439

Online Support Groups: 439

Find a Therapist Sites: 440

The Difficult Road to Intimacy: Living with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 414

An Overview of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 414

Trust Issues 415

Flashbacks 416

Painful Loneliness 417

Hypervigilance 417

Body Image Difficulties 418

Searching for a Rescuer 419

Choosing Not to Form Any Intimate Relationships 420

The Problem of Shame in the Forming of Intimate Relationships 421

Do Not Lose Hope 422


Here's an excerpt from the first chapter:

The Road Less Taken


The phrase ‘the road less taken’ was inspired by a beautiful poem written by Robert Frost entitled, ‘The Road Not Taken. Although the intention of the poem by Mr. Frost wasn’t intended to evoke the strong feelings it does, many people who read it are deeply moved. The Road Less Taken was meant to be a facetious look at his travels around the English countryside, his words say much to the human condition.


We all face decisions that can alter our lives on a regular basis and this poem speaks to many of facing decisions in life and then wondering if we made the correct one. What is we had turned left instead of right? Should we return to where we began and try again?



I Learned Two Things About Myself



When I first read The Road Not Taken, I was inspired because I realized two things about myself.



One, I have made many life-changing decisions, and many of them have been dead ends.



Two, I am not alone in this respect. Everyone makes mistakes in their life decisions. That is totally human and okay.



While thinking on Robert Frost’s poem, I thought of how entering and remaining in therapy until finding peace is indeed the road less taken. Therapy is the road that many either choose to avoid or abandon at some point because of the hard and grueling work involved.



Those of us who have chosen therapy and to look ourselves straight in the eye, are the exceptions.

So, with that introduction, I am going to attempt to relate my story and show that I’m not just some nut job who claims to have knowledge about dissociative identity disorder, and therapy.





I am shouting out that indeed, I know what I’m talking about.



An Important Note



One important note to my readers.



I have made the decision and promise that on this blog I will not publish any gruesome or highly triggering details. I was sold, used, starved, and a lot of other horrendous things and saying that is enough. Comparing my abuse to yours is useless and I will not promote that line of thinking.



Looking to see who suffered more is comparing apples to oranges and doing so is useless and harmful. I do not enjoy playing the one-up-man-ship game, where I you tell me what happened to you and I try to one-up you by telling you something worse.

That is childish and very unproductive.



Okay. I will begin the year I was diagnosed and go from there.



I hope this helps. Morgan