title: Utilizing hypnosis and ego-state therapy to facilitate healthy adaptive differentiation in the treatment of sexual disorders.
abstract: Much of the literature focuses on the pathology that falls to the far right of the Watkins (1997) differentiation-dissociation continuum, such as Dissociative Identity Disorder and Dissociative Disorder NOS. Adding a "far left" to this continuum, as well as a construct of what the "far left" looks like, makes apparent the value of healthy adaptive differentiation for those individuals that fall to the "far left" of the spectrum; those who don't differentiate enough. A discussion of sexual dysfunction at this end of the continuum and cases of Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder and Vaginismus demonstrate the clinical effectiveness of an approach combining hypnosis and ego-state therapy to facilitate healthy adaptive differentiation.
authors.affiliation: WKLemke@aol.com
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lemke
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D008875:Middle Aged; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D020018:Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*