Press Release - Got Personalities?  Multiple Author Publishes Book

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Rev. Criss Ittermann
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E-mail: criss@liberatedlifecoaching.com

What do you do when you’re diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder at the age of 16?  In The Crissing Link: Poetic License (subtitled “a poetic journey through the labyrinth of multiplicity”) author Reverend Criss Ittermann gives an autobiographical overview of her dawning realization that she has “other people in her head” and her decision in 1986 to get along with what she calls her “internal family” when her psychiatrist asks whether she’d like to integrate.

Rev. Ittermann created the book as a manifesto on personal authenticity and a challenge to society.  “I embrace who I am in all of my glory and diversity rather than choosing to dull myself down to fit some vague definition of ‘normal’ because to me normal means ‘average’ and ‘typical’ and is too close to ‘ordinary’,” she writes in her introduction. “Give me a choice between living a life hardly worth living with no higher purpose -- and the chance that I will be my multiple selves yet demonized, made fun of, laughed at, ridiculed, or even beaten to a pulp and left for dead somewhere, and I will choose being Out, Loud & Proud every single step of the way.”  In the book, Rev. Ittermann talks openly about being Queer as referenced in the thinly veiled reference to Matthew Shepard in the introduction, and discusses having experiences of being transgendered, bisexual, non-monogamous, and even non-human.

The book was created with an interesting rhythmic format with layers of prose and poetry and a consistent format throughout.  One might chalk the interesting format up to Rev. Ittermann’s skill as a long-time poet, and as such there is a one-chapter “refrain” where there are over a dozen comic book frames depicting life inside of Rev. Criss’s head, some of which are humorous, some of which visually describe symptoms or traits of having multiple personalities.

The Crissing Link: Poetic License is available for $24.00 on Amazon.com, CreateSpace.com.  If you prefer a signed copy signed by the author, you may order through TheCrissingLink.com.