Over a ten-year period, these selves, "The Troops" -- men, women and children -- explained to Phillips exactly what had happened. Integration is more the establishment of an internal hierarchy where the main personality -- the "first born" in DID perlance -- is recognized as being in control of the body and of those who live inside. It was a past that Truddi didn’t even know existed, until she and her therapist took a journey to where the nightmare began. The Interpreter: Translates the sometimes complex web of emotions and associations for the other Troops.

It also helped me to understand the behavior of both friends and family who had experienced abuse in early childhood and how those experiences formed their personalities and the way they function in the world. While this film is not a masterpiece, it at least exposes the audience to Chase's condition, and having read her book "When Rabbit Howls, the Troops for Truddi Chase", the real material was probably edited and censored from the beginning. Social Services Does Not Exist: Justified, as at the time of Chase's abuse (the mid-to-late 1930s through 1950), social services and child welfare agencies as we know them really didn't existed.Spell My Name with a "The": As the "original" or "first-born child" no longer exists, and since most of the Troops will not acknowledge the original child's parents as their own, all of her relatives are referred to as "the" (i. Interesting subject matter has been explored more successfully before, yet there is a certain amount of fascination with a topic like this, if one is able to find the heart of the piece amongst the false histrionics. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.

Bugs has undergone a few minor changes within his personality and outward appearance throughout his life, yet he is recognizable to the current three generations living within our society today. Chase deserves to have her story told and the viewer can learn about what the horrors of child abuse can cause. It is a book that will always have a place of honor on my bookshelves because it is a book of true heroism and filled with hope.

What they reveal is a spellbinding descent into a personal hell--and an ultimate, triumphant deliverance for the woman they became. The Big Guy: Mean Joe Green, although his imposing presence is strictly mental; people do sense it, and he can be very intimidating until you get to know him. In my experience only a few other TV films are anywhere near as good as this one, the only one that springs to mind being the Amy Irving version of "Anastasia". Just because someone has been abused does not mean they are going to be sexually promiscuous for money or anything else.