How To Be With AltersWhether you think an alter is annoying, angry, threatening or childish, don’t ignore them. Once you recognize the context of your interaction has changed, that an…
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Including a Spouse/Significant Other in Therapy – Critical Considerations: Part 1 of 7
I received many responses to my 4-part post suggesting that those with DID should consider the question of whether or not to include their Spouse/Significant Other (“SO”) in their therapeutic…
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Considering Spouses/Significant Others in DID Treatment Part 4 of 4
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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Considering Spouses/Significant Others in DID Treatment Part 3 of 4
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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Considering Spouses/Significant Others in DID Treatment Part 2 of 4
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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