Dissociative identity disorder : : theoretical and treatment controversies / [electronic resource] / edited by Lewis M. Cohen, Joan N. Berzoff, Mark R. Elin.. — Northvale, N.J. : : Jason Aronson,, c1995.. — xxii, 560 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The manufacture of personalities: the production of multiple personality disorder / Harold Merskey -- Correspondence: reactions and replies / Maeve Lawler-Fahy ... [et al.] -- A sociocultural analysis of Merskey's approach / Alfonso Martinez-Taboas -- The validity and reliability of dissociative identity disorder / Colin A. Ross -- Gullible's travels, or the importance of being multiple / Michael A. Simpson -- A skeptical look at multiple personality disorder / August Piper, Jr. -- Dissociative identity disorders and the trauma paradigm / Denise J. Gelinas -- A developmental model for trauma / Mark R. Elin -- Diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder / Colin A. Ross -- Cultural variations in multiple personality disorder / Deborah Golub -- Allegations of ritual abuse / David K. Sakheim -- Current controversies surrounding dissociative identity disorder / Richard P. Kluft -- Misalliances and misadventures in the treatment of dissociatve disorders / Seth Robert Segall -- Current treatment of dissociative identity disorder / Colin A. Ross -- Consequences of arriving at the diagnosis of multiple personality disorder / Alan E. Siegel -- treatment of character or treatment of trauma? / Joan Berzoff and Jaine Darwin -- Vicarious traumatization: countertransference responses to dissociative clients / Karen W. Saakvitne -- Treatment of multiple personality disorder in a community health center / Ellen Nasper and Tracy Smith -- The role of the client's partner in the treatment of multiple personality disorder / Mark A. Karpel.
Анотація: For clinicians, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), or its progenitor Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), is an important but beleaguered syndrome. It is immutably welded to the more general subject of trauma and abuse, and sits in the eye of the media storm. Since 1994 when the controversy surrounding DID culminated in the alteration of its very name and diagnostic criteria, DID (or MPD) has been held up to public and professional scrutiny. Its continued existence in the psychiatric lexicon will depend on the arguments and research that are generated. In the midst of the turmoil, this book offers a thoughtful and occasionally heated forum for skilled clinicians and academicians to grapple with the existence of DID, its prevalence, etiology, treatment modalities, and related controversies. Clinicians concerned and curious about this intense debate will find a thorough discussion of DID, its theoretical ramifications, and the extreme feelings that it evokes. Encounters with people diagnosed with DID invariably transform therapists into enthusiasts or skeptics. This is a book written by both enthusiasts and skeptics, and it will alternatively enrage and delight readers who themselves struggle with the diagnosis and its treatment.