Dissociation
« Previous EntriesA 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
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011THIRD GUIDELINE –
Aim for your Destination but Be Prepared to Change Direction When
the Wind Changes
Know Your Patient’s Needs and Goals but Learn to Anticipate Changes so
that You Are Ready to Shift Your Approach at a Moment’s Notice to Sustain
the Healing Process
An effective skipper watches the water all around, following the […]
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, […]
Moving In And Out Of Our Bodies
Thursday, July 14th, 2011It is generally easier for us to move in and out of our bodies when we are children, adults who survive car accidents or near death experiences will often recall observing the event from outside the body as if they have already died and left the body behind. They notice a […]
Dissociation in the Karmic Dimension
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011Many years ago I recalled a medieval past lifetime in which I was a young shepherd boy who lived alone with his father in a remote mountain cabin. Bandits came along one day and broke in, threatening us. One of them swung a club at my father. I jumped in front […]
Suicidal Self Rejection from Feeling Unwanted at Birth
Thursday, October 1st, 2009Clea, a young woman who was the second-born of twins, recalled her father’s disappointment because she wasn’t a boy like the first twin. Clea had also taken on her mother’s anxiety about displeasing her father. Clea’s adult feelings of worthlessness and self-rejection associated with being female as well as her compulsive need to please men […]
Feelings of Rejection from the Prenatal Period
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Melissa had been feeling rejected, resentful and guilty all her life in relation to her mother. She also complained of chronic pain in her lower back. When we focused on the prenatal period, she recalled her mother having the same back pain in the fourth month of the pregnancy. At that time her mother was […]
Impact of Parental Attitudes at Conception on Our Feelings about Sex
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Karmic Therapy focused on conception is often the quickest and easiest way to deal with sexual dysfunction and other difficulties with intimacy. Among the many hundreds of patients I have seen over three decades, I can’t recall a single instance where the patient could not recall anything about conception.
Rhonda, a woman in her late twenties, […]
WHY INTEGRATIVE PSYCHIATRY? HERE’S AN EXAMPLE OF THE BROAD PSYCHOSPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE THAT AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH OFFERS
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008VARIETIES OF SPLITTING IN OUR SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE
We all feel conflicted or split at times, but normally these conflicting feelings are contained within an overall sense of a unified self. After severe trauma, in psychotic states, or during spiritual experiences, however, we may experience what seem to be different voices from within ourselves or from outside. […]