A Gathering Place: The Inner Work of Healing Dissociative Identity Disorder.

About the book

If you live with parts of yourself that don’t always know each other, that disagree, that protect or hurt or hide, this book was written with you in mind.

It is not a self-help book and it is not a substitute for therapy. It is a working companion for people already in trauma therapy with a trained clinician — a place to bring the slow, often confusing work of getting to know your own system.

The book is organized around the idea of a gathering place inside — a Conference Room — where parts can begin, in their own time, to know one another.

It moves through phases of treatment that any phase-oriented therapy will recognize: building safety, learning the language of parts, meeting protectors, sitting with persecutors, and doing the work of integration without pretending it’s simple.

It is written in plain language. It assumes you are doing real work and treats you accordingly.

Who this book is for

This workbook is for people with DID, OSDD, or other dissociative presentations who are in active treatment with a clinician trained in trauma and dissociation.

Family members, partners, and supporters of people doing this work may also find the book useful for understanding the inner landscape their loved one is moving through.

About the author

Seaghan Coleman is a trauma therapist in Buffalo, New York, who has spent the last decade working with people who live with complex trauma and dissociation.

He is the founder of Samadhi Healing Collective and writes from inside the work — from years of slow, careful sessions with people learning to know their own parts.

He believes that healing is possible, that it takes a long time, and that no one should have to do it alone.