Ira Brenner guides us along a path that is unfamiliar to most psychoanalysts. Relatively few analysts have seen a case of multiple personality disorder (now officially termed dissociative identity disorder, or DID), and even fewer have actually treated a case. Brenner has written so skillfully that his book serves both as an introduction for those who are barely familiar with this disorder and as an informative, thought-provoking text for those who are well informed.

Brenner has been studying and treating these patients with an intensive, analytically based approach for over twenty years. He states that he has evaluated or treated more than 300 patients with DID. He presents his seasoned ideas about many aspects of dissociative disorders, well supported by clinical data. His