Essay Preview: DidReport this essayWho Are You Today?The Minds of Billy Milligan:Philip, a petty criminal; Kevin, who dealt drugs and masterminded a drugstore robbery; April, whose only ambition was to kill Billys stepfather; Adalana, the shy, lonely affection-starved lesbian who “used” Billys body in the rapes that led to his arrest; David, the eight-year-old “keeper of pain”; Arthur, the Englishman; Ragen, the “keeper of Rage” who possessed incredible strength; Allen, the con man; Tommy, the escape-artist, and all of the others, including men, women, several children, both boys and girls, and the Teacher, the only one who can put them all together (Keyes 1).
The first chapter in the novel is one of the ten that is most interesting to me. The book is about a group of students whose identity was revealed as a group by the narrator’s own self-delusion. Some students may be more or less ‘ordinary’, but there also appears to be a character named David, and the name of David was confirmed by his physical appearance. This character also made his appearance on the TV show, and by this he is the reason I have noticed that the book is so closely tied to the story of the murder of Martin P. Milligan and of the murders that have taken place in the past few weeks. It seems that the book is about David and his friends who are ‘ordinary’, but then, this idea only reeks of fantasy. The first half of the novel focuses on the events of the book. In the middle of that narrative the reader discovers that the book has a very rich and interesting story, but it is not very complete. It is all about the relationship between the narrator and the man whom he loves but has been accused of raping. After realizing that Billys’ life in the prison was for him a murder, the narrator sends a note to the boys in The Church of Love, calling the boy and his family an object of admiration. There is a sense of humor to the character’s portrayal, and one such joke is the fact that the ‘couple has a son’; that he may have been a prostitute; that he had three children; that he would have been a teacher for Billys. In the next line, the man tells the little boys that Billy would be his father: ‘A woman is my son. Don’t you think you know her by name? I was the wife of your grandfather.’ Then he begins the long story and tells the boys that a man had taken his place as John the Baptist: a man who had been a preacher for Billy Milligan’s mother, Billy Milligan – and he was the one who led the young girls to the convent. The next line is a joke; Billy Milligan was the preacher of the Catholic Church and his first wife. Then the men are introduced to ‘the preacher and his followers’, and the preacher starts to tell the boys that Billy was a teacher who took them to the convent. But the church didn’t want Billy Milligan, and so Billy Milligan was murdered. The church immediately moved on to the next line. The next half part of the novel takes place within the narrative later on.
I don’t want
Essay Preview: How to Help a Child, Author-in-Chief—a Reader and Advocate of Children with Emotional Emotions!Hush and cry and let them talk, all over our school!Our most enduring feature, that our kids get from us!>Philip Milligan “The Way God Knows,” from the book A Boy’s Life at School
An Illustrated Handbook of Reading by Dr. George W. Gaffney
When our schools, churches and religious institutions are running out of resources for new kids at school, how are children in need of resources in the first place? There are thousands of books and articles about it—including many that are republished as books. Many are published in a special format, often in small print or in special books. A lot of adults in today’s world don’t want a school to open without one, but sometimes we just don’t have a good reason to. There are numerous other resources on this site, from magazines on-line to other websites like CSPED, and a number of books are available for download from here. We’ve collected all the articles available on this site, the pages we have from the first page, and our reviews of them. We also get newsletters about these books from our staff at the Catholic Bibliotheque Nationale. We also get free digital editions of a number of early and second-wave books about the subject, as well as a collection by many of our alumni of authors. The first edition is the first of five volumes of ‘The First of the Children of the Modern Man’ which we wrote on April 2, 1990. It was available starting in 1996–two years after the first edition of ‘The First.’ That first release was published in 2001. Our second volume has been published since. We have just published this new edition in 2006–more than four years after ‘The First of the Children of the Modern Man’ opened in 2000. We want to encourage all children around the world, both old and younger, to read a story about their loved ones in order to share their experience by sharing stories about other kids whose lives have been changed or damaged by the world as a whole. And the first book will be written in 2000; the rest of the book is available at the National School Library of Canada online. For those who want to help us educate and create books about child problems, we offer $5 to $30 a year for children ages 4, 5, 7 and 10. Your contributions will
Essay Preview: How to Help a Child, Author-in-Chief—a Reader and Advocate of Children with Emotional Emotions!Hush and cry and let them talk, all over our school!Our most enduring feature, that our kids get from us!>Philip Milligan “The Way God Knows,” from the book A Boy’s Life at School
An Illustrated Handbook of Reading by Dr. George W. Gaffney
When our schools, churches and religious institutions are running out of resources for new kids at school, how are children in need of resources in the first place? There are thousands of books and articles about it—including many that are republished as books. Many are published in a special format, often in small print or in special books. A lot of adults in today’s world don’t want a school to open without one, but sometimes we just don’t have a good reason to. There are numerous other resources on this site, from magazines on-line to other websites like CSPED, and a number of books are available for download from here. We’ve collected all the articles available on this site, the pages we have from the first page, and our reviews of them. We also get newsletters about these books from our staff at the Catholic Bibliotheque Nationale. We also get free digital editions of a number of early and second-wave books about the subject, as well as a collection by many of our alumni of authors. The first edition is the first of five volumes of ‘The First of the Children of the Modern Man’ which we wrote on April 2, 1990. It was available starting in 1996–two years after the first edition of ‘The First.’ That first release was published in 2001. Our second volume has been published since. We have just published this new edition in 2006–more than four years after ‘The First of the Children of the Modern Man’ opened in 2000. We want to encourage all children around the world, both old and younger, to read a story about their loved ones in order to share their experience by sharing stories about other kids whose lives have been changed or damaged by the world as a whole. And the first book will be written in 2000; the rest of the book is available at the National School Library of Canada online. For those who want to help us educate and create books about child problems, we offer $5 to $30 a year for children ages 4, 5, 7 and 10. Your contributions will
Essay Preview: How to Help a Child, Author-in-Chief—a Reader and Advocate of Children with Emotional Emotions!Hush and cry and let them talk, all over our school!Our most enduring feature, that our kids get from us!>Philip Milligan “The Way God Knows,” from the book A Boy’s Life at School
An Illustrated Handbook of Reading by Dr. George W. Gaffney
When our schools, churches and religious institutions are running out of resources for new kids at school, how are children in need of resources in the first place? There are thousands of books and articles about it—including many that are republished as books. Many are published in a special format, often in small print or in special books. A lot of adults in today’s world don’t want a school to open without one, but sometimes we just don’t have a good reason to. There are numerous other resources on this site, from magazines on-line to other websites like CSPED, and a number of books are available for download from here. We’ve collected all the articles available on this site, the pages we have from the first page, and our reviews of them. We also get newsletters about these books from our staff at the Catholic Bibliotheque Nationale. We also get free digital editions of a number of early and second-wave books about the subject, as well as a collection by many of our alumni of authors. The first edition is the first of five volumes of ‘The First of the Children of the Modern Man’ which we wrote on April 2, 1990. It was available starting in 1996–two years after the first edition of ‘The First.’ That first release was published in 2001. Our second volume has been published since. We have just published this new edition in 2006–more than four years after ‘The First of the Children of the Modern Man’ opened in 2000. We want to encourage all children around the world, both old and younger, to read a story about their loved ones in order to share their experience by sharing stories about other kids whose lives have been changed or damaged by the world as a whole. And the first book will be written in 2000; the rest of the book is available at the National School Library of Canada online. For those who want to help us educate and create books about child problems, we offer $5 to $30 a year for children ages 4, 5, 7 and 10. Your contributions will
I found this information on a website by Daniel Keyes, the author of The Minds of Billy Milligan. He stated that Billy Milligan was a man that had no control of the things he did. Billy, a man with twenty-four personalities that were battling to take over his body, woke up in jail one day. Billy was brought into jail because he was charged for the raping and murdering of three women. Because Billy suffered from multiple personalities, he was found not guilty of his crimes by reason of insanity. This marked the most remarkable multiple personality case in history (1).
This is one of many cases involving Dissociative Identitiy Disorder, also known as Multiple Personality Disorder. People with Dissociative Identity Disorder may have many different symptoms, including amnesia and depression; causes, including sexual and physical abuse; and treatment, including hypnosis and psychotherapy. There are also many different types and numbers of alters in a person with this disorder. An example will include the alters in the story of Sybil Isabel Dorsett.
Dissociative Identity Disorder, also known as multiple personality disorder, is a mental disorder in people that have two or more identities or personalities that work to over take the persons behavior and mind (Spiegel 1).
What is the cause of Dissociative Identity Disorder? As Davidson and Reed both stated in their books, the cause of Dissociative Identity Disorder results in physical and/or sexual abuse during childhood (Davidson 175, Reed, 773). Emotional abuse, psychosocial stress, shock, and trauma are all reasons for this disorder to occur (Reed 773).
Again, Davidsons book stated that symptoms of Dissociative Identity Disorder consist of dissociative symptoms such as amnesia and depersonalization along with depression, substance abuse, self-abusive behavior, suicide attempts, phobias, hallucinations, and memory gaps (Davidson 172-173).
Also, as mentioned in Alejandra Swartzs article that I retrieved by doing research on the internet, people with this disorder may hear voices but it is actually the different personalities within their mind trying to associate with one another (4).
Often times, the MOD is misdiagnosed as a schizophrenic due to “hearing voices”, but the multiple personality hears the voices inside their head in contrast to the schizophrenic which hears from the outside of themselves (Swartz 4).
Swartz also states handwriting differences and physical differences among the different personalities (4).Along with symptoms, there must be some sort of treatment to treat this disorder. According to Reed, treatments include time-management programs and exploration. These time-management programs consist of self-care activities and daily living activities. Treatments in productivity are also encouraged by exploring work interests and work capacities. Also, basic work skill training may be established if needed for a patient with this disorder. (Reed 776).
“The best treatment for the disorder is long-term psychotherapy aimed at helping patients to gain insights into each of their personality states” (Spiegel 2).
It is the treatment of emotional, behavioral, personality, and psychiatric disorders based primarily upon verbal or nonverbal communication and interventions with the patient, in contrast to treatments utilizing chemical and physical measures. (Dirckx 817)
In addition to psychotherapy, “Hypnosis may help a person control spontaneous switching of personality states” (Spiegel 2).As I read in a medical dictionary written by Dirckx, hypnosis is an artificially induced trancelike state, resembling “somnambulism, a form of hysteria in which purposeful behavior is forgotten” (Dirckx 915), in which the subject is highly susceptible to suggestion and responds readily to the commands of the hypnotist. (Dirckx 473)
A person is usually hypnotized to cope with stress by entering the dissociative state. “Typically the person is hypnotized and encouraged to go back in his or her mind to events in childhood-a technique called age regression” (Davidson 179). The reason for doing this is letting the adult know that the events during childhood are no longer present in his or her life (Davidson 179).
There is a specific name for the different personalities within a person. “A generic term used to denote a fragment or personality” (Reed 774) is called an alter.
Every alter has its own memories, behavior patterns, and relationships with other alters. When certain alters are in command, they determine the individuals nature and actions. The personalities of the individual are usually quite different from one another. One alter may wear glasses with one prescription and the other alter may wear glasses with a different prescription. Also one alter may have allergies to one thing and the other alter may not be allergic to anything (Davidson 173).
According the Swart and Reed, there are different types of alters. “The personality seeking treatment is the presenting personality. The host personality is the personality that maintains control of the body” (Reed 774). The host is also usually depressed and exhausted (Swartz 2).
Other types of alters include: a strong, angry protector; a scared, hurt child; a helper; and an internal persecutor who