This Volume 2 continues the discussions begun in Volume 1 concerning Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder. This Volume focuses on giving patients, support networks and therapists the foundation to heal and support healing of those with DID. Those who wish to learn about treating DID from a clinician's perspective will find guidance in both Volumes. The key point of understanding that ignoring past trauma simply will not help a patient. In his psychiatric practice, the author encountered a number of his patients' alters face-to-face. He found that the most effective course of therapy was to engage them directly. Talking to alters is a strange, serious and ultimately compelling experience. They are survivors of childhood abuse, present in shared flesh and blood. They are essential for healing the patient. In Volume 2, The author goes into detailed guidance for working with DID as well as highlighting pitfalls to avoid. Most important, he elucidates practical and easily accessible techniques necessary to help these traumatized patients heal. DID patients can successfully engage in and profit from therapy. By processing the impact of their past traumatic memory, they may reclaim their present.
About the Author: I received my medical degree and psychiatric training in Hong Kong. I continued my training in London, England and in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada where I became a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. After having practiced psychiatry on three continents and over four decades, I retired in 2006. Although my education was considered quite thorough, there was nothing taught about DID. Nevertheless, in my practice of over 40 years in a variety of settings, I encountered a number of individuals with Multiple Personality Disorder. They gave me a tremendous gift, windows into their worlds. I wrote this book to honor my DID patients, those I was able to help and those, unfortunately, who I was not. During my years of practice, most of my colleagues dismissed DID even as they referred their dissociative patients to me. It is my hope and aspiration that this book will enable therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists to build upon my experience so as to be able to correctly diagnose and treat DID. Even more important, I hope that the material in the book assists DID patients to see their own path to healing.