About the Author

Helen H. Watkins (1921 – 2002) was an innovative psychotherapist, a founding member of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD), a psychologist at the University of Montana, and co-creator with John G. Watkins of Ego State Therapy. She and John were awarded the Pierre Janet Award to Clinical Excellence, at the 15th International Congress of Hypnosis at the University of Munich. John G. Watkins, PhD, (1913 – 2012) was Professor Emeritus of the University of Montana, and world renowned as a pioneering psychologist in the areas of hypnosis, dissociation, and multiple personality. He was a founder and past president of ISCEH, as well as president of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (SCEH), the American Board of Psychological Hypnosis, and the Hypnosis Division of the American Psychological Association. Dr Watkins has also served as clinical editor of the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. One of his best-known successes was to get the notorious Hillside Strangler to confess to murder and to reveal his multiple personalities.