More psychologists come to examine Milligan.
When his stepfather raped him, Milligan says that the person who became conscious was a lesbian named Adalana her distaste for the act signifies how much Milligan hated the rape. In therapy, Milligan suggests that he was physically and emotionally abused by his stepfather, Chalmers. When police or therapists ask to speak with the real Billy Milligan, various personalities inform them that Billy is currently hiding because if he were to come out, he would want to commit suicide. Milligan claims to have twenty-three to twenty-four unique personalities. Another, Arthur, has an English accent and appears to be an intellectual. One personality speaks in a vague, Eastern European accent and claims to be a con artist. While in custody, Milligan begins showing radically different personalities. He’s later arrested by a SWAT team member who’s posing as a pizza delivery boy. Milligan is accused of two rapes, one attempted rape, and several kidnappings and robberies around Ohio State University after his third would-be victim, Polly Newton, identifies him in a lineup of suspects. In the first chapter, the author reviews how Billy Milligan was arrested in 1977. Its themes include deception, the nature of mental illness, and the interaction between the criminal justice system and mental illness.
It received several awards and was the basis for several documentaries. This work blends biography, true crime, and general psychology. Keyes is most famous for the novella Flowers for Algernon (1959). The Minds of Billy Milligan (1981) is a nonfiction work by Daniel Keyes following the life of Billy Milligan, a rapist and robber who was judged to be insane after claiming to have a multiple-personality disorder (currently called dissociative identity disorder, DID).
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