First Person Plural

First Person Plurar is the UK survivor-led charity for dissociative survivors of abuse and trauma and their allies. Their focus is on complex dissociative distress such as dissociative identify (multiple personality) and similar conditions. They are a membership association offering full membership to dissociative survivors and affiliate membership to friends/relatives/support workers/professionals and anyone else with an interest in their work. They publish a quarterly support and information newsletter; run bi-annual members open meetings; write information resources and maintain a web-site. They offer training and awareness raising activities and participate in consultations.

First Person Plurar works to:

• Provide support and information to adult survivors of trauma and abuse who experience complex dissociative distress, and to their friends, family and carers (allies).
• Promote a better understanding of complex dissociative distress among health and social care professionals and to improve service provisions leading to better health outcomes.
• Advance the education of the general public in order to promote a better understanding and acceptance of people who experience complex dissociative distress.

 
Checked: December 2006