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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: magic daughter
    sub title: a memoir of living with multiple personality disorder
  name:
    name part: Phillips, Jane
    name part: (Multiple personality patient)
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Alexander Street (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Personal Narrative
  genre: Autobiography
  genre: Biography
  genre: autobiographies (literary works)
  genre: Personal narratives
  genre: Autobiographies
  genre: Biographies
  genre: Autobiographies.
  genre: Biographies.
  genre: Personal narratives.
  genre: Récits personnels.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York, N.Y
    publisher: Viking
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 238 pages)
  abstract: Jane Phillips began writing The Magic Daughter, a memoir of her experiences with Multiple Personality Disorder, as a suicide note. She wanted to leave behind an account of her existence with a fragmented mind: the daily struggle to maintain consensus among a variety of selves; the awkwardness of encountering people who seemed to have "met" her but of whom she had no memory; the constant fatigue brought on by having to complete tasks several times in order to satisfy her various selves that a job is done; and the fear that somehow she will blow her cover and appear as something other than the college professor that she is. Instead of dying, Jane Phillips became fascinated with the task she had set herself. Instead of dying, she wrote this exquisitely crafted account of her life as a multiple and her journey toward being "just-one." In The Magic Daughter, she describes the day-to-day experience of living with this disorder as well as her work with a remarkable therapist over the course of nearly a decade, trying to decode the workings of her mind and the reality of her past. Together, they uncover the memories of violence, abuse, and manipulation by her brothers and parents, who saw her as the long-awaited "magic daughter" who could save this dysfunctional family. She learns to sleep through the night without waking in terror as memory after memory surfaces; she teaches herself to differentiate between remembered pain and current illness so she can explain her condition to a doctor before her other selves can take over and her symptoms disappear; and she makes the astonishing discovery that even in her mid-thirties, she has no understanding of what being a woman really means. She uncovers The Kids, JJ, and numerous other selves who protected the young and adult Jane, and, with help of her therapist, she achieves a newly dawned sense of gender, chronology, and unity
  note: Jane Phillips.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: (Multiple personality patient)
      name part: Phillips, Jane
    topic: Mental health
  subject:
    topic: Multiple personality
    topic: Patients
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Multiple personality
  subject:
    topic: Dissociative Identity Disorder
  subject:
    topic: Personnalité multiple
    topic: Patients
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Personnalité multiple
  subject:
    topic: Multiple personality
  subject:
    topic: Mental health
  subject:
    topic: Multiple personality
    topic: Patients
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Dissociatieve identiteitsstoornis
  classification: RC569.5.M8 P48 1995
  classification: 616.85/236/0092 B
  classification: 44.91
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Magic daughter
    name:
      name part: Phillips, Jane.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1995
    identifier: (DLC) 95007604
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Counseling and psychotherapy transcripts, client narratives, and reference works
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: SFB
    record creation date: 950223
    record change date: 20250331202508.4
    record identifier: in00005638846
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng