Winner of the 2016 eLit Awards: Silver in Psychology/Mental Health2017 Book Excellence Award Finalist in PsychologyFractured Mind: The Healing of a Person with Dissociative Identity Disorder portrays a person's journey from violence to redemption and healing. It is a heart-wrenching story of horror, pain, acceptance, and hope. Warning: this book is for adults only due to explanations of sexual and physical violence causing dissociation at an early age.Helped by intensive EMDR psychological therapy, Debra's subconscious peels away layer-by-layer, revealing horrific trauma caused by her parents at a very young age. Her damage was so severe, the foundation of her psyche had to be remade. The reader will follow Debra as she reveals an unusually close relationship with God and what she calls the "Other Realm." The story witnesses the love and comfort of God, but it also tells of God's wisdom and justice. Debra brings her relationship with her God to life in the book and that relationship seems as real as any relationship with a loving, guiding, parent.Debra writes a narrative throughout the book, but the main writing style is an authentic email dialogue between her "parts" and Bruce. Bruce's wisdom and spiritual understanding lend an amazing perspective on the struggles of healing from violence. Dissociative Identity Disorder is not a mental illness, but a disorder. (Many years ago, DID was called Multiple Personality Disorder.) The healing has released her of her trauma. She is no longer bound by the violence of her past.This printed edition is a shorter version than the ebook.


Debra Bruch is a retired Associate Professor of Theatre at Michigan Technological University. She received her doctorate degree in Theatre from the University of Missouri - Columbia. Debra is an ordained minister in the Community of Christ. Dr. Bruch was active in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the national theatre association for the academe, especially with the Religion and Theatre Focus Group. She was on R&T’s executive council for several years, was conference planner, and chair/focus group representative. Through ATHE, she founded and was the general editor for the peer-reviewed journal, The Journal of Religion and Theatre, from 2002 to January 2006. She is interested in the relationship between Australian culture and Australian drama, and has published and presented papers exploring Australian Aboriginal drama. By invitation, in January 2007, she traveled to Iran to attend the International Seminar on Religion and Drama on merit of her article about Jack Davis’ The Dreamers. Debra also served as an adjudicator for the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival for several years. She has been included in Who’s Who of America’s Teachers and Who’s Who of American Women.