When Rabbit howls / [by] the Troops for Truddi Chase ; introduction and epilogue by Robert A. Phillips.

When Rabbit howls / [by] the Troops for Truddi Chase ; introduction and epilogue by Robert A. Phillips.

By
Chase, Truddi.

Publication Date
1987

Publication Information
New York : E.P. Dutton,

Edition
Book Club ed.

Physical Description
353 p.

Subject Term
Multiple personality -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
 
Adult child abuse victims -- United States -- Biography.
 
Adult child abuse victims -- United States -- Mental health.
 
Child sexual abuse -- Case studies.

Additional Contributors
Phillips, Robert A. (Robert Archer), 1942-

Summary
uccessful, happily married Truddi Chase began therapy hoping to find the reasons behind her extreme anxiety, mood swings, and periodic blackouts. What emerged from her sessions was terrifying: Truddi's mind and body were inhabited by the Troops--ninety-two individual voices that emerged to shield her from her traumatizing childhood. For years the Troops created a world where she could hide from the pain of the ritualized sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her own stepfather--abuse that began when she was only two years old. It was a past that Truddi didn't even know existed, until she and her therapist took a journey to where the nightmare began...

Language
English


LibraryCollectionCollectionCall NumberStatus
Cormack (WCM)Adult NFicAdult Non-Fiction616.852 C38Checked In