“The external therapeutic relationship remains a template for the kind of supportive companionable relating it needed internally. At the same time, this stage facilitates the role of the therapist as a consultant to the system [person with dissociative identity disorder].” HealingTherapyDissociative Identity DisorderDissociative SystemSecure Base Book:Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder Source: Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder