Title: Voices - The deeply moving account of a psychologist's first multiple personality patient. Author: Trula Michaels LaCalle, Ph.D. Published by: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1987 ISBN: 0-396-08974-7 [hardcover, 273 pages]
Dr. Trula LaCalle, wife, mother, and respected psychologist, takes on a baffling young male patient. Her growing conviction that he suffers from multiple personality disorder is met with disbelief by her psychologist husband and skepticism by her colleagues. At the time, multiplicity was thought to be so rare that no therapist would ever expect to see it.However, one of Dr. LaCalle's colleagues who has had experiences with multiples does not scoff at LaCalle's judgment and agrees to assist her. The patient, Christopher Kincaid, is put into hypnotic trances and the journey of discovery begins. As personality after personality emerges - male and female, heterosexual and homosexual, appealing and menacing by turn - LaCalle becomes more and more involved in Christopher's life.
Sweet and vulnerable "Timmy," the four-year-old persona, captures her heart and she allows a maternal bond to form. But this child and his need for emotional commitment and nourishment create impossible conflicts with the needs of her own two children and her husband.
As she finds herself drawn into Christopher's life and problems, she also faces her husband's growing jealousy and antagonism.
Filled with self-doubt, Dr. LaCalle feels she is sacrificing her marriage and her health. She struggles on - helping Christopher to find a "normal" world while her own world shakily endures.
At last, the trust essential to Christopher's healing is established, and the terrible secret of his shattered mind - childhood sexual abuse - is uncovered. Ultimately, Christopher learns to give and to cherish, as he chooses to care for his lover who is dying of AIDS, and Dr. LaCalle forges new and enlightened bonds with her family.
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