Episode #33: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Multiple Personalities and the Process of Healing with Lyn Barrett, Author

Author: De'Vannon Hubert
Published: Thu 13 Jan 2022
Episode Link: None

INTRODUCTION:

Lyn Barrett is an author and a facilitator of Writers’ Workshops and Memoir Classes for People with Dissociative Disorders. Her memoir, Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory, follows her discovery of and recovery from multiple personality disorder, now called dissociative identity disorder (publication date January 3, 2022 with Koehler Books). Her free eBook DID Unpacked: A Parable is available on her website. She has been interviewed by public radio stations around the country and by Safe Communities Survivors’ Voices series. A retired teacher, school principal, and pastor, Lyn was diagnosed with DID in 1992 while climbing up the career ladder. After considerable therapeutic work, she now lives a happily integrated life with her husband in the Adirondacks. You can connect with Lyn on her website at www.Lynbarrett.com.

INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to):

· Are you really crazy?

· Dissociative Identity Disorder defined

· Alternate/Multiple personalities

· Insight into the memoir writing process

· Early childhood trauma

· Trauma informed therapy

· Atheistic insight

· Quaker insight

· Healing

CONNECT WITH LYN:

Website: https://www.lynbarrett.com