Se aborda el caso de una paciente que sufre un TID (como consecuencia de una infancia traumática). Se presentan las principales características del caso y de los cambios que se fueron produciendo en las sesiones del tratamiento (EMDR e ICV…
EMDR is a procedure capable of assisting with MPD patients by defusing acute distress associated with current crises. In order to benefit from EMDR without risking retraumatization, the diagnosis of MPD needs to be established and consent obtained…
Origin and Nature of Stress Disorders: The Defense Response occurs as part of the switch from fearful flight (Ego) to cornered, fearless fight (Id) whereby the individual attempts to obtain freedom from restraint through the violence of defensive…
This abstract is one portion of a panel on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It was given on Saturday, February 23, 1991, for the California Psychological Association Conference in San Diego. This paper details a protocol of Eye Movement…
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), remains among the most challenging of mental disorders. It is difficult to understand, to diagnose, to treat, to discuss objectively in the face of the many…
This article briefly reviews the tactical integrationist's perspective in the work with multiple personality disorder patients. Its foundation is a cognitively based treatment paradigm geared toward controlled abreactions with cognitive restructuring…
Dissociation is the result of overwhelming trauma. The major feature of patients with Dissociative Disorders is a disturbance or alteration in the normally integrative functions of identity, memory, or consciousness (American Psychiatric Association,…
Ann Norris first went to see Laguna Beach psychologist Doug Sawin in 1988. She had recently graduated from college with a degree in music and suffered from insomnia and drank alcohol to sleep. But it was her relationship with her mother, Judy, that…
