Use of the extended family in the treatment of multiple personality.
The author describes a patient with the diagnosis of multiple personality who was treated by several therapists with different theoretical perspectives, including psychoanalysis and family systems theory. The latter approaches to the patient's illness are compared, a new methodology of treatment is reported, and the impact of different ways of thinking about the patient is discussed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D009105:Dissociative Identity Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005190:Family; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011582:Psychological Theory; D014167:Transference, Psychology