Drawing on the author's experience of depersonalization disorder (DPD), this book aims to provide support, understanding and advice on how to manage everyday life with DPD.With insight from respected figures in the field and those with lived experience, the book details the depersonalization experience, from what it is to the impact it has on everyday life. It also offers coping strategies and practical, positive advice for seeking professional treatment.In both the public and clinical spheres,...
Engaging Multiple Personalities Volume 3 (Engaging Multiple Personalities, #3)
by David Yeung
Brings together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life of media consumers Henry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though marginal and largely invisible to the general public at the time, today, media producers and advertisers,...
A personal account of attempting to escape slavery by a mind control cult A Brain of My Own is about slavery, about brains stolen in childhood and before; brains that have been intruded upon, stopped, shrunk, paralyzed. We know about the history of people whose bodies were enslaved; but we know barely anything about the victims who appear free but whose brains are invisibly chained. Nor do we know about the international collusion, silence, and apathy that surround this kind of slavery. A Bra...
Cultivating a Healthier Mind (Dr. Maurice Health Tips and Guide, #8)
by Maurice Lincoln
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
This intriguing combination of fantasy thriller and moral allegory depicts the gripping struggle of two opposing personalities — one essentially good, the other evil — for the soul of one man. Its tingling suspense and intelligent and sensitive portrayal of man's dual nature reveal Stevenson as a novelist of great skill and originality.
Empowering DBT skills for grounding, emotional regulation, values-guided action, and interpersonal effectiveness Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for DID—The Workbook is an empowering guide and an invitation to explore what living well with dissociative identities means to you—at your own pace, and on your own terms. This workbook has been intentionally created to honor all your parts—and embrace your multiplicity. Its goal isn’t to deny or stifle your identities: It welcomes you as you are, tea...
Dangerous Curves (Critical Cultural Communication)
by Isabel Molina-Guzman
With images of Jennifer Lopez’s butt and America Ferrera’s smile saturating national and global culture, Latina bodies have become an ubiquitous presence. Dangerous Curves traces the visibility of the Latina body in the media and popular culture by analyzing a broad range of popular media including news, media gossip, movies, television news, and online audience discussions. Isabel Molina-Guzmán maps the ways in which the Latina body is gendered, sexualized, and racialized within the United Stat...
Mobile Selves (Social Transformations in American Anthropology)
by Ulla Dalum Berg
An explanation of how Peruvian migrants maintain meaningful social relations across borders. In this engaging volume, Ulla D. Berg examines the conditions under which Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands to migrate to the United States. Migrants often create new portrayals of themselves to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country, as well as to control the images they share of themselves with others back home. Migrant vid...
