The Minds of Billy Milligan

KEYES, Daniel

Published by Random House, Ne wY, 1981

About this Item

Octavo, 34pp., illustrated. First printing, per the publisher's period style, with number line descending to 2, and the words "First edition" in print below. A crisp, clean copy, about fine in like dust jacket, with faint and very shallow dampstain to the bottom of the jacket and front board. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Keyes on the front free endpaper: "To Terese - with best wishes, Daniel Keyes." Keyes is best known as the author of "Flowers for Algernon." His interest in psychology led him to write this detailed biography of Billy Milligan, the Columbus, Ohio man who was controversially acquitted of several rape charges due to his apparent dissociative identity disorder (sometimes colloquially known as "multiple personality disorder"). He spent the next decade in mental hospitals, and died in 2014. A documentary on Netflix, "Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan," was released in 2021, which features some contemporary interviews with Keyes. This book essentially supports the thesis that Milligan indeed suffered from "DID," and was not "faking" the experience of having multiple personalities. The case remains controversial among clinical psychologists. Uncommon signed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Minds of Billy Milligan
• Publisher: Random House, Ne wY
• Publication Date: 1981
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology