Consciousness
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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, 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 […]
Functional Brain Anatomy
Thursday, July 28th, 2011Coming around full circle; brings us back to neurobiology. A recent book, My Stroke of Insight by neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor, recounts the author’s subjective experience
of a massive hemorrhage that systematically extinguished her left brain functions over a period of several hours, leaving her with only right brain consciousness.
Because of […]
Benign Ghosts
Thursday, July 7th, 2011Not all attached spirits are negative, sometimes benign ghosts of the dead acting as guardian angels can attach themselves in response to cries for help in crisis situations, imparting the extra energy needed to survive. Psychic practices like trance channeling can also be seen as a benign form of voluntary […]
Psychotic Dissociation
Thursday, June 30th, 2011A patient prone to psychotic dissociation develops the delusion that the separate voices are not part of the self but are intruding from an outside source. At the far end of the dissociative spectrum lies Chronic Undifferentiated Schizophrenia, the most extreme form of Psychological/Relational splitting in which the inner world […]
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011Relating to a patient in this kaleidoscopic state is unnerving even for a trained therapist. One never knows which personality is going to show up for an appointment, but after awhile the therapist becomes familiar with them. The typical body language of the different personalities gives them each away before a […]
Dissociation and the Relational Dimension
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011The deeper the splitting of the self the more profoundly family and social relationships in the Relational realm will be disrupted. If inner voices function as very different personalities and never talk to each other, then there can be no consistency in the way outer relationships are conducted.
Anyone who tries to […]
Dissociation in the Psychological Dimension
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011Psychotherapy uncovers internal psychic structures variously labeled in different
psychological theories as inner voices (in Voice Dialogue), subpersonalities (in Psychosynthesis), or inner objects (in Psychoanalysis and Object Relations theory). These are normally viewed as aspects of the self with distinctive characteristics and ways of responding to situations. Inner voices can […]
Neurobiological Clues to Dissociation in the Physical Dimension
Thursday, June 16th, 2011The intricate neuobiological mapping of circuit loops that serve different functions in the brain suggests the possibility that some of these loops or interrelated families of loops could function quasi independently of one another as stable complex patterns of organization within the central nervous system. These isolated loops might be […]
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