Catherine Crosby on Living With More Than One Self

In this episode, we meet Catherine Crosby to discuss her book, Voices from Inside: A Memoir in Verse, a poetic memoir about dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.As Catherine invites us into her fascinating but often misunderstood world, we talk about the realities of dissociation and how she has learned to work with her alters, ultimately harnessing what she describes as a kind of inner “superpower.”We discuss why poetry became the only form capable of holding this story, how language both reveals and limits understanding, and what it takes to tell the truth about a life that does not fit a single narrative voice.This conversation offers a thoughtful, humane look at dissociative identity disorder and challenges many of the assumptions people carry about identity, memory, and what it means to be whole.