Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder (or Multiple Identity Disorder)

145 Pages·2012·0.53 MB·English

by  Jo L. Ringrose

UNDERSTANDING AND TREATING
DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER
(OR MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER)

UNDERSTANDING
AND TREATING
DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY
DISORDER (OR MULTIPLE
PERSONALITY DISORDER)
Jo L. Ringrose
First published in 2012 by
Karnac Books Ltd
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Copyright © 2012 by Jo Ringrose
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
ABOUT THE AUTHOR xi
PREFACE xiii
CHAPTER ONE
The dissociative disorders and the presentation
of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), or Multiple
Personality Disorder (MPD) 1
CHAPTER TWO
Assessment and diagnosis 11
CHAPTER THREE
Beginning stage of psychotherapy 23
CHAPTER FOUR
Middle stage of psychotherapy 41
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viii CONTENTS
CHAPTER FIVE
Final stages and integration 57
CHAPTER SIX
Considerations for psychotherapy 63
CHAPTER SEVEN
Problems and issues 83
RESOURCES 95
REFERENCES 119
INDEX 125
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank my clients for sharing all their experiences
so bravely with me. They think I teach them but the learning and
experience has come from them more than me.
Many, many thanks too to Dr Claire Schulz who has made substantial
contributions to my clinical practice and greatly influenced my thinking
and approach to working with these clients.
Similarly, I am also indebted to Dr Barbara Boat, Dr Erica Pearl, and
all my research participants who gave up their free time to talk to me
about their experiences in this field. I am grateful to you all; without
your knowledge and experience the research and this book would be
much the poorer.
I also want to thank Dr Ellert Nijenhuis and his colleagues at the
Top Referent Centre in the Netherlands, some of whom subsequently
kindly debated and critiqued elements of my research.
Special appreciation too to Dr Frank Putnam and Dr Carlson who
have given permission for me to include the dissociative experiences
scale, and to Dr Nijenhuis, Professor Spinhoven, Dr Van Dyck, Professor
Van Der Hart and Dr Vanderlinden for their permission to include
the SDQ-20. Also thanks for their substantial writings in this field
that have helped me enormously, particularly initially when I needed
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