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Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder

Book by Sue Richardson · 3 quotes · Dissociative Identity Disorder, Therapy, Dissociation

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“Whatever the theory, it is important to note that clinicians such as Kluft draw attention to the clinical error of insisting that all alters talk as one or that only the alter with the legal name should be validated. 'Such stances are commonly associated with therapeutic failure'.”

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“While professionals and patients can be blamed for 'believing' in an illness or having one, patients also report problems when they are believed. Some professionals, they commented, have worryingly simplistic ideas of 'integration'. Ignoring the separately named alters in effect offers a psychic death sentence rather than aiding integration. If anything it can create a compliant false-self 'main person' who answers to [his or] her name and keeps all other 'states' in silent terror internally.”

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“Working within the NHS, we are, as therapists, part of the system that has its own logic and values that can be experienced by the DID patient as not consistent with their own needs, and can be experienced as cold, detached and abusive.”

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