The purpose of this book is to provide understanding of the
relationship between childhood trauma and serious mental illness.
Dr Colin Ross, one of the most respected North American authorities
on Multiple Personality Disorder, writes that his MPD patients have
taught him that virtually all psychiatric symptoms are potentially
trauma driven and dissociative in nature. He believes that MPD
research will shift the paradigm of psychopathology in the
direction of a general trauma model, and away from the two dominant
schools of twentieth-century psychiatry, the psychoanalytical and
the biomedical. The Osiris Complex is a collection of case
histories illustrating the clinical roots of the paradigm
transformation Dr Ross anticipates.
Contrary to prevalent opinion, MPD patients do not have more
than one personality; the so-called different personalities are
fragmented components of a single personality, abnormally
personified and dissociated from each other. Adult patients exhibit
core symptoms: voices in the head and ongoing blank spells or
periods of missing time. The voices are the different parts of the
personality talking to one another and to the main, presenting part
of the person who comes for treatment. Periods of missing time
occur when aspects of the personality take turns being in control
of the body and memory barriers are erected between them. Patients
also experience symptoms such as depression, anxiety, eating
disorders, substance abuse, sleep disorders, sexual dysfunction,
psychosomatic symptoms, and symptoms that mimic schizophrenia. MPD
patients have experienced the most extreme childhood trauma of any
diagnostic group and therefore exhibit the psychobiology and
psychopathology of trauma to an extreme degree. The good news is
that once diagnosed, the MPD patient can be brought back to
health.
This book is important for all mental health professionals, and
also for the general reader interested in psychiatric phenomena. It
will play a powerful role in the social revolution necessary for
the recognition of the preponderance, intensity, and hiddenness of
severe childhood emotional, physical, and sexual abuse in our
culture.
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