This book encapsulates common belief on the behavior of multilple personalities and it adds in the beliefs of the American publics opinion on Satanism. The book, as a read not a study, is very interesting and holds the readers attention. But as a study into multiple personality disorder verges onto the unbelievable. I recommend it to those who enjoy a good tale in other's misery.

The case studies presented in this book are fascinating and compelling. The clients' accounts seemed genuine, and revealed evidence of a satanic underground in our society that we are in great denial about.

My only problem with this book is that after all he went through with his clients, and all he witnessed, that the author himself does not conclude that what his clients revealed was, in fact, real.

I have a difficult time understanding his skepticism in the face of what he witnessed. If he saw a plane crash, I sincerely doubt he would minimize its reality. He saw lives crash, and pretends not to be convinced. I don't get it, and am repelled by that kind of cynicism.

This book is positively BRILLIANT! A great gift for anyone interested in the work of the often overlooked von Mayer or physics in general.

This book has a basic principle that a deal is not a good deal unless both parties feel good about the deal. It then shows how to do your homework and systematically create a negotiation approach. The book uses several situations to illustrate his approach. His methods are very practical and useful in every aspect of life. This book is one of the best books on this subject I came across--most importantly I have used this book for at least 2 big successful negotiations.

This is an execllent story about SRA and a therapist that believes his clients. I thin it is a must read for survivors of Ritual Abuse

JFK Senior is still probably the most famous dead celebrity so it's rather surprising that no one else has chosen to write a book in which JFK and his contemporaries deliver a retrospective from heaven.

So I'll give the author minimum credit for imagination. And no credit beyond that.

The author, Robert Mayer, makes several mistakes. First of all, he puts JFK, RFK, LBJ, and Martin Luther King in heaven. This is probably a mistake, as far as the first three go, and even No. 4 might owe an explanation or three before being allowed entry.

The author also consigns J. Edgar Hoover and old Joseph Kennedy to hell. In both those instances, he might be right. But his treatment of Hoover in particular is extremely distasteful and even juvenile.

Even if every rumor about how Hoover lived while he was on this planet was true, the author's treatment of Hoover is way out of line. WAY out of line. I think that Robert Mayer fancies himself as a far leftist with a magnanimous ability to see all sides of an issue.

It's funny how if you scratch an individual like that just a little beneath the surface, you see that same UGLY thing below the skin that you see in all liberals. Mayer's tone is pretty reasonable throughout most of the book, EXCEPT for the J. Edgar Hoover scenes. THAT'S the ugly liberal in Mayer seeping through. He might be Janet Reno in male drag.

His treatment of Richard Nixon is surprisingly even-handed. This book was written in 1988 when Nixon was still alive so Mayer was not required to consign Nixon to heaven or hell. He got to dodge that bullet.

Third of all, the story stars famous dead people in the afterlife. And when you try to make real the unknowable, even in a work of fiction, it's necessary to establish certain rules and stick to them.

Mayer doesn't really do that. It's not really clear what these dead personalities are able to do and are not able to do -- Mayer unfairly shifts this in order to accommodate whatever the plot requires, as the characters weave back and forth from their little corner of heaven to other little corners to earth to hell and back. No fair, Mr. Mayer.

Another thing that isn't fair is that when flashing back to actual historical events (the most noteworthy ones, of course, being the assassinations), the author, in Oliver Stone fashion, deliberately mixes fact with fiction without making the distinction clear.

A number of the passages in this book include conversations between JFK and his valet in Dallas. My eyes bugged out as I read the text of these conversations, which seemed remarkably prophetic and then I realized, with disgust, that they were all too prophetic because they were entirely fictitious. But the author introduces them as history.

Fifth of all, does anyone imagine that if these four characters got together again in heaven, they would sit around and discuss issues of policy, as they did on earth?

No. The world of the policy wonk would not have been heaven for the Kennedy brothers, who sought and achieved office in order to fulfill a destiny and not specifically with the goal of influencing policy.

Maybe LBJ would be happy as an eternal policy wonk. MLK, of course, led by inspiration and did not hold elective office. Maybe, in the event that hell freezes over and Clinton is allowed into heaven, policy wonking might be his second or third choice of recreation. But not for the Kennedy brothers.

Finally, Mayer makes the same mistake that all leftists do. His "even-handed" treatment of the Kennedy brothers only criticizes them from the left -- they expanded the Vietnam War, they didn't do enough for civil rights, they were too "Cold War" and too obsessed with getting Castro, etc.

But as Kenneth Lynn has said, there was a yellow thread of timidity that was interwoven through the ostentatious aggressiveness of the New Frontier. All of the "hard-nosed" Kennedy actions were done within the framework of domestic politics, which caused them to often betray those who took their fighting words at face value. Kennedy foreign policy left the Communists more firmly entrenched in Vietnam and Cuba at his death than they were when he took office.

The author, Robert Mayer, doesn't raise THIS critique of the Kennedy brothers; as a leftist, he is incapable of understanding it and may not be aware that it exists.

The book is readable enough and can be finished in one sitting and might be worthwhile if all that you are looking for is an afternoon of whimsy. But not if what you are looking for is an honest fictitious treatment of history.

Dictating from purgatory, JFK sheds light on his life and all that has been written about him since his death. JFK talks about his mob connections, his friendship with Frank Sinatra, his feelings about Nixon, Jackie, LBJ, and Martin Luther King, his hatred for J. Edgar Hoover, and his affairs with Marilyn Monroe and Judith Campbell.

LBJ, Adlai Stevenson, J. Edgar Hoover, and Martin Luther King chime in as well.

With Kennedy wit and charm, Mayer brings Kennedy to life. Irreverent, wry, and suspenseful, it's hard to distinguish between fact and fiction.

Finally, the book also offers some illumination regarding Kennedy's assassination and death.

This book should be heard, since the two reader's accents contribute tremendiously to the wit and enjoyability of this book. One doesn't have to be a Kennedy fan to delight in this book, but personal familiarity with the New Frontier is necessary.

The book is witty, moving and terribly clever. There probably are historical inaccuracies. This story is Kennedy talking from "heaven" so it seems more than a little pedantic to expect that his "remeniscence" will be accurate. The point is the sense of time, the Irish version of the Kennedy accent and the personal view of the Kennedy myth.

I read incessantly. However, sometimes books on tape are superior to the written form. Some books are simply better read. For example, for an adult, the book on tape version of Harry Potter is just better. Bernard Cornwell's "Sharpe" series are infinitely better read by Frederick Davidson.

I, JFK is such a book. Like Kennedy or loath him. This book remembers a time and a group of people who changed who were are as a nation. For a trivial amount of money you can experience, but more importantly, enjoy a unique time in American history. I cannot recommend a book more highly.

If you are old enough to remember Kennedy's death, then I urge you to listen to this book. I don't think you will regret it.

This was a terrible book.

dont waste your mone

i read this book many years ago. my mother read it along with a whole troop of other books on different mental illnesses. i think she was searching for answers for herself. this book helped me a lot.. scared me a lot as well, when i read it again as i first started to accept my own multiple personalities. it was a very interesting book --i loved reading from the doctor's perspective and found it to be quite honest.

I read this book when it first came out. I just ordered a copy here today. I think it is an excellent book. Multiple Personality Disorder MPD is a very very strange condition. This book gives a first hand account of a psychologist working with patients having the same. It is in a very readable style and an easy read. I had dated a Multiple a short time before I read this book, and it gives you insights into things you see, but you can not believe. For instance, my girlfriend was in her early thirties. When we had an argument one day, she spun around my family room like a little child. Then she sat on my lap and started to cry. She looked about 4 years old. Even the little "crows feet" in the corners of her eyes were gone. I said to her, "You don't look the same." She said, "I have many faces." And so she did, as well as many different voices. There are some "dark" sides to many multiples, and you should be aware of that also. This book helped me sort it all out, and again it is an easy read.

Though skimming through this book may make you think it is a yet another a biography of a multiple, this isn't so. Though the story of Toby is central to the work, this book covers the lives of other multiples as well. The unifying factor is the doctor they share, one newly introduced to the concept of multiplicity. Although he seems fairly married to the ideas of trauma-related multiplicity and the necessity of integration, he is very open-minded about learning more about the "disorder," something that cannot be said for many therapists. The major plus of this book is the historical overview it gives to multiplicity in terms of how it has been dealt with clinically. For that alone, multiples may find it worth seeking out, especially if they are writing their own books.

I bought this book because my used camera didn't come with a manual. I'd like to say this book is a collection of instruction sheets, but it's not even that good. It's more of a series of "let me show you a few things these cameras can do" passages as someone would say in the aisle of a store.

The part on my camera, the Minolta 7000, was cursory at best.

For example, the book barely explains how to set the Minolta 7000 to "stop motion" if you want to stop the motion of, say, a train going 60 mph down the tracks. No step by step instructions are given--or even clearly how to get the camera into that "sport" mode to "stop motion." I ended up taking the book and my camera into a Click Camera store and having someone show me how to do it, step by step. (I loved it when the person in the store looked in the book and said, "they didn't tell you how to do that".)

In another example, there are no easily found, step-by-step explanations of how to connect an external release to this camera, how to shoot a time-exposure of the stars or other moving objects or how to use a tripod-mounted camera to shoot pictures of moving objects.

If you pay more than five bucks for this book, you'll be disappointed with it. I did and I was.

If you really need a manual on one of the classic Minolta cameras, buy a used copy of this book, but also go to Minolta's web site, download the "pdf" file for your camera's user manual and take it to Mailboxes etc to be printed and bound with a plastic cover. That's what I did after I was so disappointed with this book. Betweent the two and the folks at the Click Camera, I'm learning how to use the camera.

A good summary of the minolta line, but left me wanting more... I learned little of my camera (I dont have the owners manuals), and am left needing a more complete reference.

I ordered this book before it was published (the English version), and am very sorry I did. I was expecting a book full of detailed information about implementing SAP on NT...that is not what I got. The authors all work for iXOS (a company with close ties with SAP), and it seem no more than a marketing exercise for them. I would be very surprised if it took them more than 1 weekend to write this book. The book is only 250 pages, but 59 pages are dedicated to telling you how to install/upgrade SAP (version 3.x or lower)...It has only just been published but 4.x is not covered! The first 60 pages are pure marketing rubbish, with the word iXOS appearing all the time. It also discusses the Alpha platform for SAP, even though development of this platform on NT is ending. Only 6 pages are dedicated to clustering. Only 5 pages are dedicated to High availability. .......... Bottom line, if you are a marketing guy, or a manager with no technical knowledge and you would like to have a couple of terms you can through around in a meeting to try to impress, maybe you can get some value out of the book...If you are a Systems guy looking to install SAP on NT, the SAP online documentation and Installation/upgrade guides offer far more detailed information than this book. If you don't have access to the online doc's, try another book (but make sure it has good references first..)