What books or readings do you recommend for people with DID? I'm looking for anything ranging from structured self-help books to just general learning. Thank you! :)
for non-book academic papers: just search things you're interested in, I have too many papers and most of them are interesting except the ones that are just academic beef or round 1000 of "DID real?"
extreme baby basics/you were just diagnosed and have no idea what's going on/parts do not understand what DID is:
dear little ones; the patchwork quilt (both for child parts; side note: NOT for parts who dislike/are reactive to being treated as children)
amongst ourselves - alderman (uses some dated language but still decent)
you have a vague idea what's going on
WORKBOOK: coping with trauma related dissociation - steele et al
WORKBOOK: complex ptsd workbook - shwartz
the haunted self: structural dissociation - steele et al
healing developmental trauma - heller
any of janina fisher's books
adult children of emotionally immature parents - gibson (general, not DID specific)
toxic parents (general, not DID specific)
trauma and recovery - herman
the DID source book - haddock
complex ptsd from surviving to thriving (caveat author is christian and that seeps into the work)
intensive psychotherapy for persistent dissociative processes - chefetz
dissociation and the dissociative disorders - dell
trauma and the body: sensorimotor approach - ogden et al
sensorimotor psychotherapy - ogden
rebuilding shattered lives - chu (mostly about the field)
polyvagal theory - porges
healing the traumatized self - frewen et al
anti-recommendations (as in, don't read these):
when rabbit howls (this is actually an ok book but recently I've seen people recommend this to people w DID except this is a memoir about severely sadistic abuse and I just don't think it's appropriate to recommend to Most people)
I don't recc reading memoirs esp if you do not remember your own trauma history at this point in time