We think of appeasement as a collection of social behaviors that aim to restore a safe relationship and maybe attachment with another person who is perceived as more powerful or threatening. If we gave them any cause to be angry with us, we need to fix it and make them calm down and like us […]
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Unintentionally destabilizing a DID System
There are a lot of individual things that can go wrong in DID therapy. And there are also predictable patterns where a certain type of mistake will lead to a certain type of problem. Of course that won’t fit every system on the planet. But it fits often enough to be more than random. We […]
Summer Break!
Hello my friends, Like every summer, we are taking some time off. We will be back in a couple of weeks. Take good care Theresa
Techniques of science denial and DID
CN: this article mentions organized abuse, ritual abuse, mind control, abuser organizations, stigma and infuriating bullshit There is a lot of misinformation out there about DID. Some of it is based on a lack of knowledge and we can help by pointing towards scientific resources. In other situations, what we encounter is plain denial […]
Exercise for crisis prevention
We can think of our experience with stress as a spectrum. At one end of the spectrum we are relaxed and not stressed at all, at the other end we experience crisis. And then there are stages in between. We can use the spectrum to assess our situation. That way our interventions can be […]
The Fractionated Abreaction Technique (Kluft)
Fractionated abreaction is a technique that was specifically created to process extreme abuse and memories that are so atrocious that other techniques fail because we get flooded and overwhelmed instantly when we remember what happened. An abreaction is a situation where we remember and re-experience a memory and when that happens accidentally and uncontrollably […]
Finger Signals in DID Therapy
Especially early in our therapy we will run into situations where it would be necessary to communicate and negotiate with other parts but we can’t because we haven’t established a line of communication yet. We don’t hear these parts and they don’t have a way to reach us except maybe through creating symptoms in our […]
Increasing capacity
Capacity is a crucial concept in trauma treatment. It describes the zone in which we are regulated and able to regulate ourselves after we get stressed. In a way that makes it more important for daily life than the Window of Tolerance, which puts a greater emphasis on noticing our dysregulation. It is normal […]
IRRT for Complex Trauma and Dissociation
IRRT stands for Imagery Rescripting and Reprocessing Therapy. It is a technique for processing trauma memories that mainly uses imagery and self states to resolve situations that are stuck. Instead of blunt exposure we change the story in our head and take care of our younger self to achieve changes in our symptoms. IRRT […]
Reducing Amnesia – Developing Co-Consciousness
I wish I could offer you smart tricks on how to reduce amnesia, but I don’t know any. What I know is boring and takes time. First we try to fill in the gaps in our knowledge through inner communication. Later we practice co-consciousness to avoid having amnesia altogether. The solution for not having […]
Intentional Switching (DID)
Teaming in DID requires the ability to switch on purpose. That way, parts with special abilities can manage situations when that is needed. Maybe a well-oriented child part is remarkably good at holding still and that would be an advantage when we need to get an MRI. That is certainly a better solution than forcing […]
Selective Functioning
We often think of functioning in a simplified way: either we function or we don’t. Reality is more complex than that. Different tasks need different kinds of energy. It means we can function in some areas while we don’t function in others. Hard physical labor is not the same as creative work, social interactions, spreadsheets, […]
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