When Truddi Chase began therapy she was already building a successful career, a
marriage, and a family. But what she was seeking most were explanations for her
extreme anxiety, mood swings, and periodic blackouts. What finally emerged from
the four-year sessions was terrifying: Truddi Chase's mind and body were
inhabited by the Troops--ninety-two individual voices that had rescued her from
a shattering childhood of violent, ritualized sexual abuse by her stepfather
that began when she was only two. For years the Troops created a world where she
could hide from the pain, and be shielded from the truth. It was a world Truddi
Chase didn't even know