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Written by Joan Frances CaseyAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Joan Frances Casey and Lynn WilsonAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Lynn Wilson

  • Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
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  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
  • On Sale: May 26, 1992
  • Price: $16.00
  • ISBN: 978-0-449-90732-0 (0-449-90732-5)
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When Joan Frances Casey "awoke" on the ledge of a building ready to jump, she did not know how she had gotten there. It wasn't the first time she had blanked out.

After only a few sessions with Lynn Wilson, an experienced psychiatric social worker, Casey discovered she had MPD--Multiple Personality Disorder. As she came to know Casey's distinct selves, Lynn Wilson uncovered a nightmarish pattern of emotional and physical abuse, including rape and incest. In a move that challenged the medical establishment, Wilson embarked on a radical program of reparenting therapy to bring out and individually treat Joan's twenty-four separate personalities, the "flock" that had been helping Joan Frances Casey function, despite tremendous psychic pain, since she was a child.

The Flock is an intense and enlightening view inside the fractured mind of a multiple personality.

"A testimony to her own courage and the dedication of her therapist, who believed that a profoundly fragmented self has the capacity to heal within a loving therapeutic relationship."--The New York Times Book Review