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The Minds of Billy Milligan - Daniel Keyes

 
Description: ISBN 0553263811 / Author: Daniel Keyes / Genre: Crime / Thriller / A portrait of a tortured young man, arrested for a series of ... more
The Minds of Billy Milligan - Daniel Keyes ... kidnappings and rapes, explores the world of a multiple personality, whose traumatic childhood shattered his mind into twenty-four distinct personalities.

Newest Review: ... no-one however who spent any time with ‘Billy’ who was able to maintain that scepticism. The book was divided into three ... more

 ... parts; the first being the events leading up to him being charged with rape, diagnosis of multiple personality and his subsequent acquittal on the grounds of insanity, including initial treatment and the beginnings of fusing. The second part; the account of his life prior to this as told to the author by, the then partially fused, Billy, I found least interesting. I’m not sure quite why except that it seemed like a fairly ordinary story about a troubled youth, the different characters were there but somehow Billy mana...more

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Premium Review The Minds of Billy Milligan - Daniel Keyes: In two minds? No! In 17 plus minds (667 words)
by - written on 09/06/06 (Very useful, 1067 readings)
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A fascinating and potent biographical story of how powerful our mind can be in finding ways to cope with intolerable circumstances. An intelligent young boy being subjected to horrific and intolerable abuse splits his mind to become not just two but over 20 different people within his own mind. We most of us have different personalities that show themselves at different times, when we are relaxed we behave differently from when we are under pressure for example, when we’ve had a drink we do things that we wouldn’t do sober – but still draw our own lines. Try and imagine how it would feel if those changes were to totally different people and each ...  Read the complete review

 

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