As my readers know, I am not happy with the short term news cycle attention that is generally given to early childhood trauma. The negativity expressed toward,dissociative diagnoses in general,…
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For both therapists and the spouse/SO of DID individuals, there are several key points to supportively engaging an alter. [1] One has to overcome the initial feeling of “inappropriate behaviours”…
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In my experience, which I acknowledge is limited, effective DID therapy must involve the alters. Consider that that alters are far more likely to show themselves when the patient is…
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In traditional psychotherapy, the communication between therapist and client is privileged and confidential. There is no place for including a third person as part of the therapeutic process. I believe…
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I learned of this technique in the early 1970s from a paper in physiology: It seemed then (and now) to be a simple yet elegant way of affecting a physiological…
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