This ground-breaking book examines the role of crime in the lives of people with Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, a condition which appears to be caused by prolonged trauma in infancy and childhood.

Series Foreword , Introduction , Satanist ritual abuse and the problem of credibility , Unsolved: investigating allegations of ritual abuse , The Extreme Abuse Surveys: preliminary findings regarding dissociative identity disorder , The protectors of the secrets , Am I safe yet? , Dissociative identity disorder and criminal responsibility , When murder moves inside , When the imaginary becomes the real: reflections of a bemused psychoanalyst , Some clinical implications of believing or not believing the patient , Infanticidal attachment: the link between dissociative identity disorder and crime , Letter from a general practitioner , Corroboration in the body tissues , Opening Pandora's box , From social conditioning to mind control , Mind control: simple to complex