A review by iamshadow
The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality by Lynn Wilson, Joan Frances Casey

5.0

Still one I really enjoy reading, twenty years after I first bought it. There's a lot here that's still relevant to the lived experience of disordered multiplicity through the therapeutic process, especially in light of the current focus on disordered attachment as a part of developmental trauma. Reparenting can be - and has been - done very, very badly (see Zoe Parry's Angel Child for some prime examples) but in Joan Casey's case, she seems to have fallen on her feet and found a therapist who really took the right approach for what she needed. That's not to say everything went smoothly, it didn't, but they showed the rough with the smooth in such a way that it all felt like a very organic process of growing up and learning how to be an adult, with a secure sense of self and emotional resources. There's also a great deal of respect shown to all the system members that show up in therapy, even the self-destructive ones. It isn't something that Lynn Wilson knows to do automatically, but something she works out along the way - that all system members are equally needed and equally in need of kindness and help. That's something that should be shown more in books on multiplicity.