Treatment stabilization and crisis prevention. Pacing the therapy of the multiple personality disorder patient.
This article briefly reviews the tactical integrationist's perspective in the work with multiple personality disorder patients. Its foundation is a cognitively based treatment paradigm geared toward controlled abreactions with cognitive restructuring throughout therapy. It is a suppression-dilution-of-affect model that focuses on the achievement of control and mastery for patient and therapist alike.
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Dissociative Disorders Unit, Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods; D003073:Cognitive Dissonance; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D009105:Dissociative Identity Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D004309:Double Bind Interaction; D006801:Humans; D010553:Personality Development; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*