title: Treatment stabilization and crisis prevention. Pacing the therapy of the multiple personality disorder patient.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Dissociative Disorders Unit, Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia.
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Fine
mesh_terms: 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*