Dissociative Identity Disorder: Diagnosis, Clinical Features, and Treatment of Multiple PersonalitySince the publication of Colin A. Ross's influential work Multiple Personality Disorder in 1989, this challenging field has evolved rapidly—with new thinking, new research, and a new name: dissociative identity disorder (DID). Keeping pace with these developments, this retitled Second Edition has been skillfully revised and expanded to offer a comprehensive, detailed, and fully up-to-date grounding in the history, diagnosis, and treatment of DID. Readers will find three new chapters covering epidemiology, a sound critique of skeptics of DID, and the problem of attachment to the perpetrator and the locus of control shift. There is also a fresh look at the pathways leading to DID, a discussion of the false memory controversy, and more, with material throughout based on the latest research and the author's extensive clinical and forensic experience. By providing an in-depth examination of this complex illness, Dissociative Identity Disorder not only facilitates a deeper understanding of people who have used dissociation to cope with years of childhood physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, but also reveals new insights into many other psychiatric disorders in which dissociation plays a role. Like Multiple Personality Disorder, this updated volume is an authoritative and indispensable reference for psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric nurses, social workers and other mental health professionals, as well as researchers in these fields. "Ross provides a comprehensive and interesting account of the history of MPD, dispelling many myths. He presents new insight into the treatment of MPD, with information about such concerns as how to talk to a patient, how to schedule your time, and how to keep your private and [professional] lives separate. . . . Multiple Personality Disorder will be an invaluable addition to the reference libraries of sexual abuse clinics, child abuse agencies, and correctional facilities, as well as clinicians." —Family Violence Bulletin |
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... clinician , however . Usually , DID does not present in an obvious overt fashion . In most cases , patients will not ... Clinicians who say that they have been in practice 10 or 20 years , and never seen a case of DID , are really saying ...
... clinicians astray . Schneiderian symptoms are very common in DID , and are another diagnostic clue for the disorder ... clinician explains to the patient that he wants to try to talk to the voice . The clinician then asks the voice a ...
... clinicians have been ob- serving the dissociative cluster in their DID patients for the past 15 years . One final piece of data on the college students : The high and low groups did not differ on the narcissistic , histrionic , and ...
Contents
PART ONETHE HISTORY OF DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER | 1 |
The History Prior to and Including Freud | 5 |
Freud to the Present | 34 |
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