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LIVING WITH THE REALITY OF DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER LIVING WITH THE REALITY OF DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER Campaigning Voices Edited by Lady Xenia Bowlby and Deborah Briggs First published in 2014 by Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road London NW3 5HT Copyright © 2014 to Lady Xenia Bowlby and Deborah Briggs for the edited collection, and to the individual authors for their contributions. The rights of the contributors to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978-1-78220-134-2 Typeset by V Publishing Solutions Pvt Ltd., Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain www.karnacbooks.com CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ix FOREWORD xiii by Xenia Bowlby CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1 Pat Frankish CHAPTER TWO The art of Kim Noble 5 Kim Noble CHAPTER THREE Spiritual aspects of DID 13 Nicky Robertson v vi CONTENTS CHAPTER FOUR Reading, writing, and reeling 23 Oriel Winslow CHAPTER FIVE The role of friends in recovery 35 Carolyn Bramhall and Deborah Briggs CHAPTER SIX Satanic Ritual Abuse (the painful truth) 49 Paula Bennett CHAPTER SEVEN Personal and societal denial 57 Carolyn Spring CHAPTER EIGHT Living with DID 67 Carol Broad CHAPTER NINE Back to normal? Surviving life with dissociation 81 Rob Spring CHAPTER TEN Living well is the best revenge 93 Sue Bridger CHAPTER ELEVEN Medical aspects of recognising complex dissociative disorders 105 Ruth Cureton CHAPTER TWELVE How far have we come? 123 Orit Badouk Epstein INDEX 129 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks are due to Valerie Sinason and Pat Frankish for their help with the preparation of this book. Dr Pat Frankish was the first chair of Paracelsus (dedicated to the needs of people with DID) and recently retired from that role. Dr Valerie Sinason has established the Clinic for Dissociative Studies (CDS) and works tirelessly for people with DID. The campaign for better recognition of DID, and help for those affected, began in 2011 and will continue until the aims are achieved. vii ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS Paula Bennett is in her early 50s and has been writing and speaking about her abuse to professional groups and survivor groups in the last few years. She made the decision to be more public and was on the front page of the Sunday Express in January 2013 speaking of ritual abuse by Jimmy Savile as well as reporting him to the police. She is cur- rently working on further autobiographical chapters and adding to the training of professionals in the field of ritual abuse, mind control, and dissociation. Xenia Bowlby is the daughter-in-law of John Bowlby, whose research has given so much to our understanding of complex personalities. She supports her husband Richard to continue the work and has been active in the development of the Paracelsus Trust. Carolyn Bramhall is founder and director of Heart for Truth, an organi- sation which equips churches and communities to effectively lead the most hurting and emotionally damaged into health. Her book Am I A Good Girl Yet? tells the story of her personal journey out of DID and other effects of Satanic ritual abuse. A counsellor and pastoral consult- ant, she has thirty years’ experience working with troubled people in ix
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