Multiple Personality Disorder, also known as Dissociative Identity Disorder, is a mysterious phenomenon that pits experts against each other.
Outside the ordinary day-to-day life experience of most people, it is hard to understand. When alternate personality states (alters) appear, it is tempting for the clinician and others to dismiss them as the patients' play-acting hysterics. In his psychiatric practice, the author encountered a number of his patients' alters face-to-face. He found that the most effective course of therapy was to engage them directly.
Living in Multiplicity is written directly to and for individuals with DID and their support networks. The author addresses questions from individuals with DID as they prepare for, embark and continue on their healing journey. They are questions he received prior to his retirement as well as from those who contacted him after the publication of Volumes 1 and 2 of the Engaging Multiple Personalities series.
In 1962, the author received his medical degree and psychiatric training in Hong Kong. He continued his training in London, England and in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada where he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. After having practiced psychiatry on three continents and over four decades, he retired in 2006.
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The general public is bewildered and fascinated by Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder. Through books, television and movies, a distorted view of DID is often presented. While it may make for good entertainment, it fails to truly present the depth and intensity of the inherent trauma. Outside the ordinary day-to-day life experience of most people, it is hard to understand.
Ignoring past trauma simply will not help a patient.
In his psychiatric practice, the author encountered a number of his patients' alters face-to-face. He found that the most effective course of therapy was to engage them directly.
Talking to alters is a strange, serious and ultimately compelling experience. They are not real according to our customary definitions, but neither are they false or fake. They are survivors of childhood abuse, present in shared flesh and blood.
The author discusses the phenomenon of DID through case histories, and how it manifests clinically. Most important, he elucidates techniques necessary to help these traumatized patients heal. DID patients can successfully engage in and profit from therapy. By processing the impact of their past traumatic memory, they may reclaim their present.
Título : Engaging Multiple Personalities Volume 1: Contextual Case Histories
EAN : 9781386419785
Editorial : David Yeung
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