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 | The Plural Association Resources for plurals and singlet allies. "Networking, friendships, fun, forums, support, chats, videos, courses & more!" Organizers for The Plural Positivity World Conference. |
 | The Refractory: "The Plural Association & @KeechMft have teamed up to create The Refractory, a project dedicated to advancing mental health education for clinicians working with plurals, DID, & OSDD Systems. We have a team of 50+ Plural clinicians eager to collaborate!" Presenting their detailed plan to empower plurals and professionals alike, furthering the goals of a transformative mental health system. |
 | Plurality Resource is run by the Crisses, (out as plural since 1997) who have done a huge amount of work over the years to encourage multiples of every kind and origin to create internal and external communities. They're devoted to educating the public and professionals about what plurality is and can be. Public events, life coaching for plural-groups, stress relief and much more. Keep in touch with their updated information on their United Front Substack. Originally on the same domain, Nsashaell, Branches, Faith Formation & Chimera House had a Plurality Resource centre with a library of healthy multiplicity resources. They also had a chat forum: "Our hope is to provide a safe place for all types of plurals, including fictives, to discuss topics and support each other." Nsashaell can now be found at pluralevents.org which is likewise run by the Crisses. |
A lot of the old elists have closed down.
Zines
 | A PDF zine describing the personal experiences of the Desired Constellation. Depersonalization, human rights, gender and sexuality issues, psychiatry, alienation, cooperation. Click here for many more zines on a wide variety of topics. The now-dead ZineLibrary will be archived here. |
By Kerry Dawkins of Plures House. Print editions are also available, b&w $5, color $10.
L.B. Lee group, Healthy Multiplicity have many comics zines along with vital information. This one is active and frequently updated.
Podcasts
Multiplicity 101 Podcasts -- The first podcast on the internet by multiples, for multiples!! These episodes were run by the Feathers system on behalf of the former Plural Activism organization, featuring interviews with multiples, singlet allies, medians and other interested parties. This is a free podcast and you can subscribe to the Multiplicity 101 Podcast by clicking here. There will be more Multiplicity 101 podcasts sooner or later. Better Half: Multiplicity Jim Bunkelman speaks with NPR's Snap Judgment about his loving relationship with his late wife Rhonda and her group.
Redwoods of the Inworld KCRW's Here Be Monsters, a podcast of unusual and outre realities that run just under the consciousness of ordinary life, gave a tape recorder to a multiple personality group and let them record their daily existence.
Resources
Astraea's Bookstore Our reference library. We try to list every book ever published on multiple personality, whether or not we agree with'em. This includes books on MPD/DID, multiple personality disorder and dissociative identity disorder. You can buy books right off the page through powells.com.
The Layman's Guide Is Complete. This does not mean it is static. You can still contribute. This is not just a FAQ, but an extensive booklet on the subject. If you want to contribute to the Guide, click here to use our mail form. If you write using our mail form you can be anonymous. You do not need to know HTML to contribute to the Layman's Guide.
Heritage site, for an activist group no longer active although updated occasionally. Dedicated to improving public perceptions of multiple personality, Pavilion members worked actively for change through a variety of publicity projects. Most of the action these days is on the Pavilion Hall Livejournal If you want to help in an active group, join Plural Activism.
Constantly updated so keep checking back.
Another list of links to pages on multiplicity along with some info connected to transgender issues is at Healthy Multiplicity Dot Com run by LB-Lee. If you feel like you are both singlet and plural, that you are "multiple-ish", "not multiple enough", or in an in-between, ambiguous state, try reading these articles about being median at Pavilion and see if they describe your situation.
Chrysanthème is shut down for good. It will eventually return on a mirror site.
Resources by and for autistic-spectrum people. Don't fall for disempowering bullshit from Auti$m $peaks - come here and speak for yourself.
Feel you really do have MPD/DID, multiple personality disorder, OSDD,
or dissociative identity disorder?
If you are multiple and you find that the traditional trauma/dissociation/splitting, therapy-based model is helpful, and does reflect who you are:Abuse-Trauma Therapy and Recovery:
Find A Therapist
If you are looking for a therapist in your area, the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation has a database of trauma recovery/PTSD/MPD-DID/dissociative disorder therapists.Other support sites include Rainn and Survivors of Incest Anonymous: if you were abused by clergy, go to Snap.
All back issues of the Many Voices newsletter are now available as free PDFs, there will be NO new issues BUT two new online support communities.
Click here to read about Many Voices, A Tribute to Lynn Wasnak, and New Resources for Abuse Survivors
Holding Space -- "for people still waiting to feel like someone understands them and they are not alone... a place where we can exchange ideas, talk openly about trauma, PTSD, and living with DID without the worry about security in social media" (so it will NOT be on Facebook!!)
A Life After Trauma -- "listings of online support groups, meet ups, conferences, helpful websites, phone apps, books, blogs and tools for you to use to begin to move past your trauma."
Contact Information: lizabeth@alifeaftertrauma.com - A Life After Trauma / 411 Walnut Street #13101 / Green Cove Springs, FL 32043
Founded in 1989, Many Voices was an independent newsletter written BY (not just for) people recovering from child abuse or trauma, dissociative disorder, PTSD or trauma -- multiples and singlets. It was the flagship publication for the voices of abuse survivors and multiples to speak up and be heard.
Lynn's daughter Diane says: "In January 2014, the following was found in minutes from a Board of Directors Meeting dated 9/20/2011. Lynn was nine months into Chemotherapy at this point.
"'ISST-D Liaison. I already contacted our liaison at ISST-D telling her to expect that we will have "contingency plans" to discuss with them.
"'I have had excellent contacts with them since MV began, and if we are not able to keep MV going, (when I am gone), this is the place I want to "take over", even if all they do is make back issues available on the web in perpetuity.' (THEY HAVE! Back issues free online now!)
"Many Voices issues are now the property of The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation."
Leave a comment about Lynn at the Awareness Center or sign Lynn's memorial guestbook.
Multiple Personality Gift This is the complete text of Jacquelyn Pia's "Household Management" workbook. Good for survivor multiples in crisis with bad management, no management, system in chaos, etc.
Sidran Foundation A good source of primarily mainstream, dissociative disorder, MPD/DID material.
 * Naomi Rhode, Sybil's closest relative, verifies her story * Nancy L. Preston - Sybil's Friend * Interview with Nancy Preston
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