title: 'Free to be' peer group supports patients with MPD/DD.
abstract: 1. During the last decade, dissociative identity disorder increasingly has been recognized as a relatively common post-traumatic syndrome. 2. Individuals with MPD/DD often are estranged from abusive families and have difficulty with social connection; an urgent therapeutic task is the re-creation of a sense of human interdependency and community. 3. Group therapy can be a useful and successful adjunct to individual psychotherapy for relatively stable clients with MPD/DD; the group's focus should be here-and-now, supportive, and psychoeducative in nature.
authors.affiliation: Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dallam
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Manderino
mesh_terms: D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D010358:Patient Participation; D018579:Patient Selection; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*; D012657:Self-Help Groups / Q000458:organization & administration*