This book is a step-by-step guide to convince healthy people,quite capable of solving their complicated problems, to believe they need a "trained therapist" who knows their mind's secrets, to assist them. ABSURD! I, like thousands of others, fell for this type of therapy ten years ago and was seriously damaged by it. Marlene Steinberg has simply repackaged antiquated theories once associated with multiple personality disorder. Steinberg's reporting about dissociation is totally lacking of research provided by those patients who once believed they had an MPD/DID diagnosis and now refute it. This type of reporting on the vast amount of research data available is slanted,sloppy, distorted,misleading, dangerous, and unscientifically sound.