What a heartrending story. It frightens me to know there are deviants out there like this.

If you're at all interested in psychology and the potential of the human psyche to both splinter and protect itself, then you should read this book.

It's both dark and fascinating, especially if you've had any interest in child psychology or human nature, like I have... And I'll freely admit being fascinated with the ways the human mind can react to stress and abuse.

The book is not necessarily an easy one to read, I should say that upfront. Previously known as multiple personality disorder, Dissassociative Identity Disorder is the topic of much speculation and glamorization through the movies and other avenues, but is quite compelling when you look at the actual case studies.

Even now we don't know much about DID, and it's still being studied - Truddi Chase's story came about long before psychologists knew as much as they do now, and I think her story is pretty important. She passed away in 2010, but I hope that she will be remembered for years to come.

Really interesting. This was the first book I had read on schizophrenia, and it raised a lot of questions. Crazy what the human mind is capable of.

If you want to take a hard, disturbing and frightening look at what sexual abuse in such awful forms can do to a child then this is the book you must read. I caution young people reading this because it is pretty awful.

I was horrified at what I learned this poor little girl suffered but she endured with the mental scars to prove it. People scoff at multiple personality disorder but it is real. This is a very creative way to survive multiple traumas endured at an early age.

Truddi Chase passed away two years ago. She left behind a story I will never ever forget.

This book is enlightening, disturbing and truly inspiring all at once.

Truddi Chase offers an intense view of a very personal experience with multiplicity and the life of an incest victim. The only reason I’ve given this a 4 rather than 5 stars is because it is difficult to follow the many different voices included throughout.

I read this book, and others, because I am treated for DID. Dissociative Identity Disorder in women is not infrequently the end result of sexual abuse at a very young age. So it is with the subject of this book. It was very brave of her to write it, and I don't doubt that the writing helped in the recovery. It is a difficult book to read, with lots of triggers for survivors of sexual abuse at any age, male or female. The author did some incredibly hard work to get through the trauma she experienced, and this is one instance of a person writing about their experiences in therapy being appropriate. I'm glad she wrote it, glad I read it, and I give it to women I know who were sexually abused children. You would be horrified at how many women have been abused. Roughly speaking statistically, one in three.

The longer I live, the more I see Dissociation as an incredibly useful defensive skill for young children (Or anyone) put in horrendous situations. naturally, it is preferable to be able to control dissociation, but especially early on, it just is not. I find that Meditation and self-hypnosis have helped me a great deal in learning to control dissociation.

This book was formative in my decision to go into social work. Fascinating story.

Reading is the only way to live more lives than the one you have.
When rabbit howls is about Truddi Chase and her experience during therapy. She has multiple personality disorder, now known as DID- Dissociative Identity Disorder. Troops are the multiple personalities that protect Truddi Chase. The hardest parts of the book for me, were the details of sexual abuse inflicted by her stepfather and mother. As the child is abused by her parents repeatedly, her mind scrambles to save her and creates a world of her own. To live this world of hers as she hears, feels and sees it and to watch her living that world in a world as we know it, was the strangest experience for me. It certainly changed my idea of normal, and I feel more accepting of a world unlike mine.
Even if it is hard to read in parts, I feel like I learned so much from it.
It reveals the horrific nature of child abuse and how it sets a vicious cycle of hurt, abuse and unhappiness in a childs life as they grow up to be adults. Abuse that is hungry for more victims to prey on or abuse that shatters a soul with all the supressed rage, rearing to surface. You come away feeling the hurt and pain that abuse creates in a soul. This is a book that everyone must read to understand the uniqueness of every mind one encounters in this world of ours.
The troops break it all down to comprehend the complexities of our minds. Even if their world is unlike ours, there is an underlying mechanism, a process of the mind that I feel is common to one and all.

A look into multiple personality disorder and how the formation occurred in 1 woman in particular. A psychologist working/teaching in the Northeast encounters a woman with approximately 90(+) separate personalities. A history of abuse and trauma leads to what is called troop formation within the personalities. A little hard to keep up with transitions within the book due to the woman's personalities writing different parts. Definitely work reading if you are interested in multiple personality disorder and trying to understand it.

There is a lot to mentally process with When Rabbit Howls. Can we trust the author? Can we trust the therapist? Do you believe that humans could possess enough 'energy' to disrupt things like radios/videotapes/watches? Can eye color change with 'a blink of an eye'? Can a two year old possess memory? There are endless questionable topics brought up in this book. With my medical background, the part I have hyper fixated on and am struggling with is that she (Truddi) apparently consumed nearly an entire bottle of Tylenol extra strength in just over 24hrs and somehow had no consequence to that...or when the multiples mentioned how one of them could ingest an alcoholic beverage but it wouldn't affect any of the others, so the beverages wouldn't all compound together, only compound within one multiple. I can get on board with Truddi having multiple dimensions in her brain but I cannot get onboard with the idea of Truddi having multiple livers.

It's hard to try and comprehend something that you have not experienced yourself. At times it was hard to follow along with the story but I also think that's part of the beauty and experience of the book.

Leicht verstörend aber unglaublich faszinierend zugleich.
Definitiv kein Buch was man so einfach runterlesen kann

(edit 2024) sollte aber evt in neuer Ausgabe besser noch in die aktuellen psychologischen Wissenstände eingeordnet werden. Trauma Erinnerung sind immer noch recht kontrovers diskutiert.

This book depicts what it's like to have MPD pretty well. It gives you a good understanding of what it would be like to have it. It digs deep in to all the 92 personalities this woman has, plus her unfortunate experiences as a child. Very good book. Would recommend.