Even though this book is a guide in treatment of MPD for Clinicians, MPD patients as well as the unfamiliar trying to understand MPD, will gain benefit from it. The most interesting aspect about this book is that the authors identify each inner "person" ( I will use the word "person" in a noncommittal genre), giving them due respect, and acceptance of their function within the system.

It emphasizes that in order to achieve healthiness and peace, you must draw out, and start building trust with the inner persons of an Internal Family System. By acquiring the knowledge, and addressing the needs of all within, you can start to rebuild a more uniformed and happy internal family. This process is long and tedious but worth the effort for the patient and the therapist.

I found one particular aspect unfavorable. It is the usage of words when relating what has been stated by an inner person. Their usage of words are continuously consistent with the author's own interpretation of what was said in therapy, which made reading the conversations of inner persons less credible, especially with regard to a recounting of abuse given by a "little" of 3 or 4 years of age, but primarily recounts given by "middles". The dynamics of true words spoken by a "little" must be kept in tact in order for the reader (mainly the general public) to understand and evaluate the true nature of the abuse and how the inner child perceives it. This book emphasizes knowing and understanding inner persons but it falters in keeping to that premise with regard to true word recounting.

Tony

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