num_pages: 374
description: Billy Milligan can be anyone he wants to be . . . except himself. Out of control of his actions Billy Milligan was a man tormented by twenty-four distinct personalities battling for supremacy over his bodya 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 personalitythe first such court decision in historybringing 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.
language: English
title: The Minds of Billy Milligan
publisher: Random House