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The Minds of Billy Milligan: A True Story of Multiple Personality Mass market paperbound - 1995

by Daniel Keyes

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From the bestselling author of Flowers for Algernon comes a stunning portrait of schizophrenia and crime that prompted a landmark trial--at once the story of a man with 24 personalities, one of which may have committed rape and murder, and a look at the legal ramifications of metal illness.

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The inspiration for the streaming series The Crowded Room, starring Tom Holland - From the acclaimed author of Flowers for Algernon comes the shocking true story of a man battling multiple personality disorder.

"An absorbing, often heart-rending exploration of the human mind."--Cosmopolitan

Billy Milligan can be anyone he wants to be . . . except himself.

Billy Milligan was a man tormented by twenty-four distinct personalities battling for supremacy over his body--a battle that culminated when he awoke in jail, arrested for the kidnap and rape of three women. In a landmark trial, Billy was acquitted of his crimes by reason of insanity caused by multiple personality--the first such court decision in history--bringing to public light the most remarkable and harrowing case of multiple personality ever recorded.

Twenty-four people live inside Billy Milligan.

Philip, a petty criminal; Kevin, who dealt drugs and masterminded a drugstore robbery; April, whose only ambition was to kill Billy's stepfather; Adalana, the shy, lonely, affection-starved lesbian who "used" Billy's body in the rapes that led to his arrest; David, the eight-year-old "keeper of pain"; and all of the others, including men, women, several children, both boys and girls, and the Teacher, the only one who can put them all together. You will meet each in this often shocking true story. And you will be drawn deeply into the mind of this tortured young man and his splintered, terrifying world.

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On Saturday, October 22, 1977, University Police Chief John Kleberg placed the area of Ohio State University's medical school under heavy police security.

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  • Title The Minds of Billy Milligan: A True Story of Multiple Personality
  • Author Daniel Keyes
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bantam, New York
  • Publication date 1995-01-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780553263817 / 0553263811
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.3 in (17.27 x 10.67 x 3.30 cm)
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Multiple personality - United States, Multiple personality - Patients - United
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.85

About the author

Daniel Keyes was born in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn College. His award-winning novel Flowers for Algernon is studied in high schools and colleges across the country. Keyes died in 2014.
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