Chromatic Aberrations: Correcting a Stigma of Childhood 'Isms' / Janice Williams

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A Fort Knox of graphic imagery—unlocked with the key of art—joins with detailed analyses and playful yet gut-level commentary to produce this Open House of an incest survivor’s life. Lost in an intricate maze of Dissociative Identity Disorder, she exuberantly rediscovers herself in a richly illustrated book that reveals every facet of a profoundly damaged individual’s attempts to reclaim her integrity. Her book offers a wealth of insight, inspiration, and joyful mastery of trauma to professionals, their clients, and all those who search for deeper meaning in their life.
Each artwork is self-contained image with its own text. The introduction and early chapters detail how childhood experiences led to developing DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), then to over twenty-five years of seeking help in a multitude of therapy approaches. The middle chapters chronicle many addictions and self-destructive behaviours adopted. They describe the groups attended, the growing despair, rage, and confusion, and the help I finally received for my core issues through art. Words and images join hands to weave the story together.
My audience is therapists, clients with Dissociative Identity Disorder, concerned friends of clients, and general readers who enjoy a good recovery story. Anyone who has been involved with twelve-step groups, born-again groups, group therapy, psychiatric outpatient groups, art therapy, and psychotherapy will find this book interesting. There are dozens of books in the above fields, yet very few illustrated books, and this one contains a fresh and optimistic approach to healing.
I feel my book is unique and valuable for several reasons. It is the one illustrated book I have seen describing the multitudes of addictions survivors are prone to developing. It alone describes, from birth to adulthood, the development of the disorder and its successful treatment with art after years of unsuccessful attempts to resolve it with twelve-step programs and other methods.
This book is an illustrated tale of incest and DID from birth to integration. My use of mundane, “I”-catching materials—even toys, found objects, lint, litter, and rubber skeletons—may attract people fearful of more obviously graphic depictions of traumatic events. I believe my book is perhaps the only one delving into alcoholism and drug addictions, self-injury, eating disorders, promiscuity, religious conversions, and suicide attempts—without remaining there. Regarding pre-art therapies, 12-step groups and group therapy, my book is the only one I’ve seen that explains, from personal experience, why such treatments sometimes are not effective with a DID. I express a full range of feelings, including rock-crushing rage, which I voiced once art became the vocal chords screaming me out of (yet sweet-talking me back into) myself. As a survivor of outrageous boundary violations, I’m not fearful now of expressing the darker side of indignation.
Many books discuss the value of art in therapy, especially when combined with psychotherapy or group therapy in treating sexual abuse survivors. I found an abyssal dreariness in therapy before the wonderful excitement of creating art. A psychiatrist who showed my work to senior-year medical students at the University of British Columbia told me they rated it at the highest level as a tool for helping both clients and therapists access and cope with the feelings and experiences of survivors. They pointed out that the humour, playfulness, creative wording, and rich variety of imagery in my art all helped greatly to both convey overwhelming feelings, yet to soften their impact. Yet sadly, many books on this subject seem written in either a dry or an overwrought style that makes it difficult to empathise with author, artist, or would-be-helpful therapist. I believe the fastest way to a person’s broken heart is through their laughter, their empathy, their curiosity, and the super-highway—the super eye way—of a person’s own image
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