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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 […]
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 […]
A Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder Continued
Thursday, August 11th, 2011The last personality we learned about, Beverly, was a stylishly dressed vamp who, at age 26, expressed Connie’s sexuality. The only thing that interested Beverly was the indiscriminate seduction of men, with no regard for the physical or emotional consequences to Connie or her dissociated child personalities. While Connie usually […]
A Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder Continued
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011The yearning for a good mother turned out to be pivotal to Connie’s healing, since it was a caring woman physician who had persuaded her to see me, her first male therapist. The same family doctor agreed to participate in the therapy sessions when Connie requested her to be present a […]
Guidelines for Integrative Healing a Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder
Thursday, August 4th, 2011The clinical examples used to clarify the proposed guidelines relate to my work with Connie, a very disturbed patient with Dissociative Identity Disorder and a history of horrible abuse, beginning with her favorite uncle stealing repeatedly into her bedroom at night to anally rape her at age five. He would seduce, […]
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