Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder [Paperback]

A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Library of Current ClinicalTechnique

Discusses clinical treatment, including cognitive therapy,psychodynamic therapy, short-term in-patient treatment, longer termhospitalization, and the correct use of hypnosis. Also discussed ishow the study of this controversial diagnosis reveals the innerworkings of the normal functioning mind.Foreword
Introduction: Disorder (MPD)
Part One: Understanding and Treating Dissociative IdentityDisorder
1. Psychological Assessment(Judith Armstrong)
2. Dissociation, Psychotherapy, and the Cognitive Sciences(DanielJ. Siegel)
3. Models of Helping: The Role of Responsibility(Catherine G.Fine)
Part Two: Outpatient Interventions
4. Treatment of Early Onset(Gary Peterson)
5. An Outline for Psychoanalytic Treatment(Stephen S. Marmer)
6. The Use of Hypnosis in Diagnosis and Treatment(WilliamSmith)
7. Expressive Therapy(Peggy L. Dawson, John F. Higdon)
Part Three: Inpatient Interventions
8. Hospital Treatment(Richard P. Kluft)
9. Short-Term, Problem-Oriented Inpatient Treatment(Colin A. Ross)JAMES L. SPIRA, Ph.D., M.P.H., is on the faculty of the department of psychiatry and department of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine. He serves as the director of the program in health psychology at The Center for Living, Duke University.Dissociative Identity Disorder is a new and more accurate designation for what was formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). For many years, MPD has been considered a very unconventional, highly controversial diagnosis. Initially, it was believed that only a few patients actually exhibited authentic alters'' who could be identified as distinct personalities. Later, as the powerful association between trauma and dissociation became better understood, the number of cases diagnosed as multiple personalities increased astronomilsˆ