Archive for September, 2011
SIXTH GUIDELINE –
Thursday, September 29th, 2011Make Yourself at Home with the Ways of the Wind and Water. Relax,
Empty Your Mind of Concerns, Respond Joyfully to the Journey, and Just Enjoy the Dance of Sailing.
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A Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder -continued
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011In just these brief vignettes to illustrate basic guidelines, the importance of a multidimensional perspective and the benefits of healing tools effective in each dimension become clear. Without medication in the Physical dimension to normalize Connie’s capacity to function, therapy would be disrupted by a series of emergency hospitalizations. Without […]
A Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder -continued
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011As her abuse memories surfaced with increasing intensity, Connie had greater difficulty working with her male therapist face to face. There was too much shame and fear in relation to men for her to be comfortable in my presence. She began to see her female physician more frequently without me but […]
FIFTH GUIDELINE –
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011As You Sail, Respect and Honor the Mysterious Elemental Forces of the Wind and Water that Surround You; Without Them Nothing Happens.
Remember that the Healer is but a Conduit of a Mysterious Healing Process.
The Healer is not the Power behind the Healing but only a Catalyst Fostering the Manifestation of […]
A Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder -continued
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011I have occasion to ask Connie a question that has not yet arisen: who taught the remaining personalities – Christina, Jennifer and Connie herself – their roles? Connie associates Christina with her mean and violent mother and the well adjusted Jennifer with the high functioning and kindly aunt that used to […]
A Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder -continued
Thursday, September 15th, 2011A vivid dream indicates what is happening during the period that two of the little girls, Tina and Emily, are disappearing one by one, leaving only their anguished memories to appear for integration in Connie’s dreams: the dreamer stands on the bank of a river; two girls enter her body from […]
A Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder -continued
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011Jennifer is Connie’s most valuable asset in her recovery. Jennifer by herself would be a well adjusted and high achieving if somewhat flat and emotionless adult were it not for Connie’s inner family of disturbed personalities.
The abused little girls – Tina, Emily, and Mary – eventually surrender their memories to Connie […]
A Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder -continued
Thursday, September 8th, 2011At one point in Connie’s healing I perform a brief shamanic protection ceremony in which
I employ a rattle to seal up her aura in order to shield Connie from a black spirit that she describes as coming day and night to strangle her. After that protection ceremony the black spirit stops […]
A Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder -continued
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011FOURTH GUIDELINE –
Rely on Your Skills as a Sailor and Your Passenger’s Capacities as a Crew
Member
Be Aware of and Prepared to Capitalize on the Patient’s Particular Strengths
and Your Unique Gifts as a Healer
Connie is a prolific and virtuosic dreamer. She has a history of accurate prophetic dreams and the course of […]
A Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder -continued
Thursday, September 1st, 2011From time to time, Connie’s progress is interrupted by Christina’s behavior, including paranoid rages directed at all men without exception, including me. Christina is extremely violent toward Connie also, accusing Connie of having failed to protect herself by stopping her abusers from hurting her, as unrealistic as that is for […]