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"Trudi Chase is a sucessful business woman who begins to have periods of time that she can't accound for. She seeks the help of a psychiatrist who discovers that she has Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) or Disassociative Identity Disorder (DID). She tells, in vivid detail, the story of childhood sexual and physical abuse at the hands of her step-father. This book is her own manuscript, written during recovery. It can be choppy, but is a terribly important story."
Trudy Scales, Resident Scholar
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"Trudi chase is a businss woman becoming aware of her multiple personality disorder. She begins to see a psychiatrist who then discovers her 90+ personalities. She unravells the torture and physical and sexual abuse she sustained as a child by the hands of her stepfather.
Through her own manuscript and the help of her therapist, she recalls the hidden memories of the old farmhouse where she grew up. As more and more personalities reveal themselves the more memories she is forced to deal with.
This story gives an insight of the result of sexual and mental child abuse"
robin lough, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Phys disability/mental struggle?
Yes
Struggle with
- mental illness
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- molestation
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- trader
- secretary
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
- mentally ill
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other people
- Genius (really!)
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 5 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
Farm/Ranch?
Yes
Farm/Ranch:
- farm
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- dumb Rednecks, like Gomer Pyle
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to torture
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Book makes you feel?
- angry
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript. of nude males (the big P)
- rape/molest (yeech!)
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- actual description of hetero sex
Unusual Style:
- a lot of play on words
- a lot of flashback and forwards
Writer's slant towards subject:
- very unfavorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
- story of set of events during life
Is this a biography of several people?
Yes
If this is a kid's book:
- Age 16-Adult
Autobiography?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- None
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
- little dialog
A LOT of info about personal vices?
Yes
Lot of titilating info about love life?
Yes
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 76%-100% of book
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