I get it now...
Oct. 31st, 2005 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosebeeAnyone familiar with author Torey Hayden?
She has a new(ish?) book out, Twilight Children
I'm going to cut the rest of these thoughts so I don't spoil the unfolding of the book's developments...
So Twilight Children is about 3 people, 2 children & 1 elderly woman that Torey worked with. If you're familiar with Torey's previous works you know she was a Special Education teacher. She's now a child psychologist at a children's inpatient psychiatric ward of a major metropolitan hospital.
1 of the children she chronociles her treatment of/work with is a 8 or 9 year-old girl named Cassandra. Cassandra was hospitalized in the psychiatric ward due to violent behavior, graphic lies & other problems resulting from the nearly 2 years she spent in an abusive hellhole following her abduction by her biological father.
Well several chapters into it, Torey locks on a clue that makes her think Cassandra is suffering from Disassociative Disorder (multiple personalities).
This turns out to be the case, and how Torey tells Cassandra that is what her problems come from, how/why they came to be, and begins to bring her on the process of recovery I found absolutely enlightening.
Multiple Personality Disorder (or whatever the official technical term is for it) has always been something I've accepted people as having, but I never was really able to put my brain around it. Now I think I get it.
She has a new(ish?) book out, Twilight Children
I'm going to cut the rest of these thoughts so I don't spoil the unfolding of the book's developments...
So Twilight Children is about 3 people, 2 children & 1 elderly woman that Torey worked with. If you're familiar with Torey's previous works you know she was a Special Education teacher. She's now a child psychologist at a children's inpatient psychiatric ward of a major metropolitan hospital.
1 of the children she chronociles her treatment of/work with is a 8 or 9 year-old girl named Cassandra. Cassandra was hospitalized in the psychiatric ward due to violent behavior, graphic lies & other problems resulting from the nearly 2 years she spent in an abusive hellhole following her abduction by her biological father.
Well several chapters into it, Torey locks on a clue that makes her think Cassandra is suffering from Disassociative Disorder (multiple personalities).
This turns out to be the case, and how Torey tells Cassandra that is what her problems come from, how/why they came to be, and begins to bring her on the process of recovery I found absolutely enlightening.
Multiple Personality Disorder (or whatever the official technical term is for it) has always been something I've accepted people as having, but I never was really able to put my brain around it. Now I think I get it.