The Girl in the Green Dress - Author Talk: Jeni Haynes in conversation with Ginger Gorman
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- Content warning: This video includes discussion about child sexual abuse, domestic abuse, death threats and mental health issues. The video also contains some course language.
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In a discussion facilitated by Ginger Gorman, Jeni Haynes will be talking about her book, The Girl in the Green Dress.
Described as 'unforgettable', The Girl in the Green Dress is a memoir from a woman who refused to be silenced. After enduring many years of abuse, Jeni fought to create a life for herself and bring her father to justice in a history-making ruling. In speaking out, Jeni's courage would see many understand Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) for the first time.
About the book
An intelligent, poised woman, Jeni Haynes sat in court and listened as the man who had abused her from birth, a man who should have been her protector, a man who terrified her, was jailed for a non-parole period of 33 years. The man was her father.
The fact Jeni survived is testament to the extraordinary strength of her mind. What saved her was the process of dissociation - Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) - a defence mechanism that saw Jeni create over 2,500 separate personalities, or alters, who protected her as best they could from the trauma.
With the support of her psychiatrist Dr George Blair-West, Jeni fought to create a life for herself and bring her father to justice.
Find the book in the National Library Bookshop: bookshop.nla.g...
About Jeni Haynes
Dr Jennifer Haynes grew up in Greenacre in Sydney's western suburbs. After enduring horrific abuse, Jeni fought for years to bring her father before the courts to face justice for what he had done. In doing so, she created legal history. Jeni spent 18 years at university, graduating with a degree in psychology, masters in legal studies and criminal justice as well as a PhD focusing on victims of crime.
About Ginger Gorman
Ginger Gorman is an award-winning print and radio journalist based in the Australian Capital Territory. She is also a 2006 World Press Institute Fellow. Her freelance work has been published in print and online in publications such as news.com.au, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, The Age, Mamamia and the ABC’s Drum website. Her first book, Troll Hunting, was published in 2019.
I just watched the 60 Minutes Australia story on Jeni. I felt so joyful to see Jeni come out of this horrific story as a survivor. A thriver! I truly hope she has been able to follow her dream of travel. She is an amzing woman with the sgrenght of a lion! Such a beautiful and positive human being. From the US.
You go girl!!!!
I absolutely LOVE to see Jeni healing, thriving, telling her story, being succesful and most of all, being happy and enjoying life! Utmost admiration for this woman and all of her alters, I wish I had a tiny amount of the courage she has. Jeni, if you're reading this, I wish you all the best, and thank you for working so hard!
I'm about 3 chapters in on her book and I tell ya, it takes a Hell of a woman to be able to make you smile in a book full of pure Hell. I find very very few people to be truly impressive and I think that this woman is the most impressive human being I've ever heard of. Amazing just doesn't cut it. I don't even know her and I am so unbelievably proud of her.
How awful. I didn't realise that for legal reasons she'd had to basically pretend the abuse ended when she was 11, when in fact he carried on abusing her for several years after they left Australia. Just unbelievable.
I look for new videos from Jeni….all the time!!
I love the real language!!!
Bravo Muscles!!
I hope she has the most joyous & longest life she could ever dream for. What strength. A testament to strength.
Brave. Honest. Beautiful. Jeni and Army, you all are amazing. Thank you for your tenacity, and I'm so glad you got justice and YOUR LIFE BACK!!
This woman is absolutely for real. Thank you.
sending all my love to Dr. JenI ♥️♥️♥️♥️
I hope Jeni is well and enjoying life. I have so much admiration for her. She seems to be a wonderful person, all I honestly wish for her is happiness, joy and love. 💖
Thank you so much. What power. Wish Jeni the best !!!!
I read the book and am so impressed with Jenni and her personalities! She is a smart, articulate, person. She is choosing to seek out the joy in her present life. ❤
Did you get the print or kindle version? I've been searching for it in print and can't find it in stock anywhere online. I'm in the US
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I read the book. I shed my tears so many times. Jeni is so brave and what she did for justice and for helping others was remarkable!
How incredible is Jeni Haynes--are Jeni and all her alters! You inspire...EVERYONE!
I hear you, and I believe you.
You are my hero! I look up to you so much. You give me hope for a future. I have DID. Best wishes for your future.
i have never seen somebody as brave as you Miss
I read your book jenni. I just am in awe of you . Wishing you all the happiness in the world xx
45 year prison sentence is not long enough. Life sentence or OTHER would be true justice.
There is no true justice outside of Karma. The judge is all to aware of that and made that clear.
Agreed people have gotten multiple life sentences for less
The thing is he will not ever come out alive because of his age. So proud of Jenny and all of the personalities that protect her. God Bless her. You are an amazing lady. You and your spirit be free to love to live your best life.❤❤❤
I just read this book. I am close with someone with DID, who I have known since childhood, and while I understood it before and have been able to upkeep relationships with this person and his alters, every aspect of this gave me a deeper understanding of the workings of DID/MPD and the mechanics behind it. Thank you for telling your story - it was an extremely hard read but invaluable to me.
Jeni , YOU ARE MY HERO❤❤❤❤THANK YOU FOR BEING SO BRAVE AND SHARING YOUR STORY..YOU'VE HELPED SO MANY AND GIVEN HOPE WHEN ALL THERE WAS, WAS DARKNESS..BLESS YOU PEACEFUL WARRIOR..KEEP CHARGING❤❤❤⚡️⚡️⚡️
Jeni, your an Angel, a Miracle. I Loved meeting all of you and I especially Loved meeting Gabriela and Symphony. Your the Coolest and Smartest person I've ever meet. Your my Hero, All the Best to you in your life. Your more then a Warrior!!!! You look so Beautiful and you are so Beautiful!!!! 🦋I LOVE YOU!!!!🦋
This was heartbreaking to hear. You are a wonderful person Jeni, your journey has been hideously tough, but you are an amazing light of hope and survival. ❤
Started reading her book. It is awful what her father did. I cried a lot already.
It is UNBELIEVABLE. Such a MONSTER.
Jeni
I absolutely love you.
Jeni is incredible in so many ways.
What a brave women 😢 I’m so sorry you had to go through that💔
Das Buch konnte ich kaum weglegen. Ihre Erfahrungen sind so unglaublich traumatisch und ich denke nicht dass jemals sich jemals trauen wird ihre Geschichte zu verfilmen. Danke für deine Stärke und unendliche liebe ,Jeni
Jenny, my name is Victoria, thank you for attending this speaking engagement! I am currently trying to find a way to get your book. I wish and hope that I will find the peace and grace that you have found, in my life one day. I have hope that you are able to see my comment one day!
Sincerely,
Victoria
Im praying you do as well Victoria 🙏
You're important! And worth everything!! I know you will find happiness and peace. ❤❤
I hope you find that peace and grace too, Victoria. Don't give up. Your life is important and you deserve good things.
Hi Victoria,
Jenny’s book can be purchased from our bookshop! Find it here: bookshop.nla.gov.au/book/girl-in-the-green-dress.do
Jeni Haynes, her courage, her beauty, her story, they now live in my heart and give courage, beauty and hope to my own story. I thank God that she survived to give us this hope, this awesome revelation of pure humanity. Jeni Haynes demonstrates that we are fearfully and wonderfully made.”
“… the specifically human capacity to detach oneself not only from the world but from oneself … the realm of the spiritual…”
Viktor Frankl
(Page 153 Psychoanalysis and Existentialism)
Page 153
There are no sufficient words. 🙏🏼💜x2500
Shes incredibly amazing ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
What a fantastic Woman. Wishing her all the best for the rest of her life. That monster must taste his own medicine
You can see that the interviewer obviously thinks the mom must’ve known. I think so too. She has become a remarkable person despite what happened to her. Allowing herself to believe her mom didn’t know is another way of protecting herself.
Amazing woman such courage❤
What an extraordinary woman!
Dear Jeni, you’re soooo strong, but not only this, you’re brave, looking great and well spoken 😊 and I also have a question, do you know something about your fathers childhood? How can it be a father doing this horrible things to his daughter? Greetings from Germany
Such an interesting interview...I need to read her 📖.
Jeni is so amazing and so intelligent. I wish I could meet her.
Thank you so much for explaining my disorder I have a disassociative disorder but not NPD I also have 2 TBIs from different accidents and I didn't understand that my disorder was in the same family ( I think) as MPD AND I know that I've been trying to stay in the here and now and not lose any time. I do everything that I am supposed to do whatever I go away and I just don't know what I have done while I'm gone. I'm sure glad to see someone else who unfortunately has had the same childhood as me. But I'm still disappointed that it happens. I really wish that I could have friends in my head with me because I don't have any family and my childhood was so bad that I couldn't have any babies so I'm pretty much by myself. I'm so proud of you and your accomplishments . I'm praying that you will always be happy and loved. You have been able to do things that I've tried and failed to do. I will always be the liar of my family and the dirty little secret that no one wants to see. But I can live with that because I know the truth and so does God. You are so amazing and I hope that something happens to fix this and the abused person is heard more than the accused. I love you very much and I hope you are having the best life 💗 💕 💛.
As male with DID if the mouth says it and body act on it we own. People with our disorder will take ownership of the failures of others when it was never our fault. We over compensate in this area and take on other people baggage.
THANKS THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH.
You all are the strongest person i know now
Jeni, I also want to add thst you look beautiful, elegant, and graceful....like a ballerina ❤
An update on the amazing woman please
I have read your file. What do you want to do today. What an eye opener.
Good talk though, thank you
I had no idea how many legal hoops....wow
Amazing. What she when through is so amazing
Love you
Law system is very hard to make it has too be able to put in jail people who broke law and in the same time to minimize innocent people being put in jail
True
Monsters are real.
Who can i buy this book in german please ?
Thanks 😊
what a monster the father was
I'm amazed it's still called mpd when it could now be mpo multiple personality order?
I’d be amazed too, considering it hasn’t been called MPD in at least a decade. Google is your friend plz use it
It has not been called Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)since the 1970s, but movies have always used MPD as the label. Thus, it became a "layman's" term.
The disorder now is called "Dissociative Identity Disorder" and is more conducive and better descriptor of the disorder. The alters are not just facets of personalities, but their own people that share the body.
Jeni said she preferred the term MPD over DID at the start of the interview. This is why the interviewer used it.
The only reason that monster confessed so quickly is because she remembered and shared in such accurate detail that first day. He didn’t want everyone to hear everything he did!
True😢