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Title: When Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase ISBN: 0-517-69278-3 Publisher: Random House Value Pub Pub. Date: 13 January, 1989 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A review of When Rabbit Howls
Comment: When Rabbit Howls is an account of how one woman discovers she has multiple personalities."The Troops", or the group of 92 personalities, develop as a result of her step-fathers cruel and sadistic physical and sexual abuse. The Troops surface to help Truddi cope with the abuse and survive. The story involves Truddi's psychiatrist, whom the Troops call Stanley, and his experience with each Troop member. Stanley hears the unbelievable stories of Truddi's tortured childhood, and begins to understand that each Troop member is an individual with thier own personality. Stanley and Truddi must discover a way to go through everyday life with the Troops and the memories they posess. When Rabit Howls is an excellent book on multiple personalities and the severe abuse that can cause them.

Rating: 5
Summary: SUBJECT MULTIPLE PERSONALITY EXPLORED
Comment: I have read many books about this subject and this one is the most fascinating I have ever seen. As far as I know, this is the only autobiographal book on this terrible illness. All of the others have been written by the doctor of the patient. the hard cover copy is especially interesting because there are handwriting samples of many of the 92 personalities....yes 92! this case is also unique in that it is the only treated patient whose many personalities were not melded into one surviving personality. This account is written in horrific detail of her abuse by her father. The disorder is always caused by unbearable abuse heaped on a very young child. The formation of multiple personalities is a survival technique employed by the mind. I was very impressed by the author's ability and choice to not merge the personalities and still be able to function...hold a job..be a parent ,etc. The 92 personalities are of many ages, both male and female. They function in the many areas of Trudy' life as befits their capabilities. It has been quite a few years since I read this book but I will never forget it. Altho Trudi is not a professional writer,as far as I know, it is beautifully written. The pocketbook edition lacks the handwriting samples on the cover, which impressed me by their being totally different..The personalities had different abilities, such as driving, tastes in food and drink, smoking and allergies. The allergies being different makes you wonder about their source being phychological rather than physiological...a real mind-boggler for me. I have always suspected that that might be true. Sure could put a different spin finding cures through a different approach. The perpetrator of Trudi's abuse was still alive when this book was published and one of the most enlightening passages in this book was her account of her visiting the cause of her illness. This proved to me that her decision not to merge the personalities had not prevented her being able to function in life. It is an amazing account of tremendous courage. The first multiple personality formed was the reason for the title of this book. In other accounts I've read the multiples still existed but Trudi's first one died, as I understood it. No book I have ever read has shown how much a child can be affected by the treatment of people who are their caretakers..their parents, teachers, relatives etc who are supposed to give them love and aid them when needed. Of course I highly reccommend this book It was written by Truddi Chase..