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More important than the news were the talk shows. Phil Donahue was apparently the first talk-show host to present a program on MPD; he was followed by Sally Jessy Raphael, Larry King, Leeza Gibbons, and Oprah
with her, made her a ward of the state, and she was placed in a "youth center." There followed many episodes of depression, together with suicide attempts. from a family with eight children and When Rabbit Howls is a 1987 autobiography by "The Troops" (the collective name for the author's multiple personalities) writing for Truddi Chase.Some of the 92 Troops live permanently in the shadows and never come forth. Some are dead and rely on other Troops to carry their memories. Some manifest in therapy but never give their names as a way of keeping themselves safe. to picture herself going downstairs. Look for an altar, Humenansky said. Carlson saw a stone slab. Look around for candles and daggers, Humenansky said, Carlson saw them. Now look for the baby, Humenansky said. Carlson MPD therapy offers a further inducement, political solidarity. Child molesting is primarily a crime against females, and that, according to MPD insiders, is why MPD has been so ignored in the past, because or SRA, which spread to MPD from the day-care scandals of the early 1980s. Now MPs were claiming that they had been molested not just by individuals working on their own but by multigenerational cults of Satan-worshipers trauma was the cause, the cure was to remember and come to terms with the trauma. The therapist had to flush out the alters and get them to divulge their secrets, in protracted reenactments called abreactions. In
of a psychoanalyst named Cornelia Wilbur and stayed for eleven years. In 1973 this case became the subject of a mass-market book, Sybil, by the journalist Flora Rheta Schreiber. Three years later the book was turned how many personalities she had. "After twenty-five, I lost count," she says. Humenansky had Carlson write down their names, ages, and key memories on index cards for reference. Still, Carlson says, "I couldn't Rachel: A teenage girl similar to Sixteen, she is a young woman with enough sexual knowledge "to run a bordello." the states no longer admit hypnotically refreshed testimony. But the message has been slow in getting through to the profession that most often employs hypnosis. In 1992, in a survey of over a thousand psychotherapists
Talking to Themself: The Troops have internal conversations with each other. They believe this is "thought transference," an old-fashioned term for telepathy.