The Mysterious Case of Billy Milligan

Literature has long tried to penetrate the human mind. But how to understand someone who has 24 personalities? And how to figure out who is the main one in this multitude of consciousnesses? Who are you communicating with at the moment? Only a master of psychological prose is able to unravel such a labyrinth of consciousness and help Billy Milligan unite all personalities into one, to become himself. Is this possible? Daniel Keyes's documentary novel is a reliable description of the biography of the first person whom the US court found not guilty due to the diagnosis of "multiple personality". The investigation of the life of one of the most famous people in the history of psychiatry, despite the severity of the crimes he committed, ultimately caused understanding and sympathy among both those who got to know Billy closely and those who only read about him in the newspapers. The book captivates from the first pages and frankly shows what terrible consequences an indifferent and imperfect society can experience if it allows itself to ignore the problem of violence.