Raven and the Hummingbird: A Healing Path to Recovery from Multiple Personality Disorder

by Renate Caldwell

Overview

Raven and the Hummingbird is the story of a woman's recovery from multiple personality disorder.

A fateful chance encounter brings Joan face to face with the therapist she has waited for all her life. Hopeless and desolate, she asks, "Will you take me?"

Joan is a married woman of substance and faith. At age 32, her mind broke open, and her life fell apart. She is diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder. In treatment, Joan reveals she suffered unrelenting sexual abuse throughout her childhood. Her only defense was to flee into a dissociative state, during which her mind created 52 alternate personalities to protect her from the unimaginable.

Raven and the Hummingbird invites the reader into the therapy room to witness each triumph and setback. Her path to recovery is littered with life's obstacles and often smothered by exhaustion. In her quest to piece together her fragmented mind, Joan must endure the unbearable truth and remember the unthinkable.

Ultimately, Joan's inspiring story exemplifies the capacity of the human heart to rise above the unimaginable and usher in a singular authentic life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781737919926
Publisher:	Renate F. Caldwell
Publication date:	08/15/2022
Pages:	580
Sales rank:	321,234
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

Renate F. Caldwell is a WWII and domestic violence survivor. She came to America to get "educated," received her GED at thirty-two, and was accepted into university as a provisional student. She earned degrees in Education and Journalism, a master's degree in Human Relations, and has completed two years of postgraduate study in Transpersonal Psychology and Mysticism. Ms. Caldwell received recognition and awards for her work as an educator, journalist, and video documentarian-all of which contributed in useful ways to her more than twenty years of practice as a Licensed Professional Counselor. Her experience as a therapist includes attending to clients suffering from multiple personality disorder, post-traumatic stress, domestic violence, and schizophrenia. Ms. Caldwell worked with FEMA to provide crisis counseling for victims of terrorism. She is a member of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.