We usually take a break in summer and in December, but this year is different. We skipped the summer break, and we might skip some of the winter break and have an extended autumn break instead. Our main author will be traveling a lot, speaking at events, going to conferences, and investing time in her […]
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The Phobia of Traumatic Memory
The phobia of traumatic memory is the main phobia that we have to overcome in phase 2 of DID treatment. We have put in a tremendous amount of work, challenging our phobia of attachment and attachment loss, inner experiences, and dissociative parts before memory becomes a relevant topic in our therapy. It all builds up […]
The Phobia of Fusion
The phobia of fusion is not specifically mentioned in the professional literature that talks about the classic phobias in DID treatment or it is mentioned as a phase 3 problem. I believe it is one way that the phobia of other parts and the phobia of traumatic memories shows up in our life. I will […]
The Phobia of dissociative Parts
Avoiding other parts is common in the early phase of DID treatment. They don’t feel like something we would want to engage with. We might only know them as voices that insult us, overwhelming needs that flood us or outbursts that don’t match our value system. It doesn’t help that structural dissociation often creates opposite […]
The Phobia of Inner Experiences
In DID treatment, there is the concept of different ‘phobias’ that need to be overcome for recovery. The phobia of the inner experience is at the core of the first phase of treatment, stabilization, and needs quite a lot of time to master. What are ‘inner experiences’? Sometimes these are also called mental actions […]
The phobia of attachment and attachment loss
Literature on DID lists a number of ‘phobias‘, patterns of fear and avoidance, that hinder us from getting better. We will take a look at them to see how we as patients can understand them and what might help us in dealing with them. The phobias we will look into here are attachment and attachment […]
In Defense of Precise Interventions
Therapists learn how to use therapy tools and Trauma Therapists learn how to use trauma therapy tools. Usually there is a structured approach to a problem and that makes it a whole lot easier to approach it at all. These tools and exercises just don’t hold up to real life. It is necessary to […]
Hidden Dynamics in Trauma Therapy
There are ways in which our own trauma injuries can interact with therapy tools or the personality of our therapist that may create difficult or harmful situations for us. Therapists don’t always expect it because non-traumatized patients don’t struggle with these patterns and they might not be aware that we do. We will look at […]
Things worth knowing about dissociative parts (advanced mapping)
Early in DID therapy, it is standard practice to attempt mapping the internal system of parts in some way. We try to learn who is who and how these parts relate to each other. We might learn useful things, like the action systems parts operate in or develop names for parts to make communication easier. […]
The therapeutic use of Confusion with DID parts
Sometimes parts are 100% certain of something and they are wrong. They are stuck in memories of a past that is not happening anymore or they stick to old rules that don’t apply anymore. Their undeniably real experiences formed convictions in them that persist even though life has changed. Sometimes re-experiencing creates a loop […]
Holders, Storytellers and Agents in DID
Over the years, I have come across a number of different ways to see and understand parts. None of these are absolute truths. They just offer a framework that makes it easier to understand a certain aspect of parts and it helps with overcoming challenges. Depending on the situation, one framework might be more useful […]
Epiphany #13: The Future
‘A man without a vision is a man without a future. And a man without a future will always return to the past.‘ This is a quote that has been going around in my social circles for years. The neurobiology of trauma tells a different story: Having no experience of a present means having […]
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