Everyone has attachment. It is how humans are built. Not everyone has secure attachment though. The 3 insecure attachment types are anxious/preoccupied, avoidant/dismissive and disorganized. The vast majority of people with DID have disorganized attachment when we look at the whole person. This presentation is based on some parts who are attachment seeking and anxious […]
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The 3 Phases of Trauma Therapy 3: Integration
Trauma and DID therapists commonly agree on working with a 3-phase model. It describes an order in which to do work for the best, fastest and safest results. In an attempt to keep articles short we will share about the different phases in separate articles. The 3 phases are Stabilization Trauma Processing Integration It […]
Integrating Contradicting Parts
Dissociated parts are not all the same person at a different developmental stage. The functions and abilities of one complete person were separated into many pieces to cope with traumatic situations. And then parts kept developing and growing around the piece of functioning that they contain. Today, they are more than this one ability or […]
Blending dissociative parts (advanced)
Blending is an act where dissociative barriers are dissolved for a limited time so that the experience of one part mixes with the experience of another. They experience a temporary unity of self and they can move apart again intentionally, as they wish. During the first phases of our treatment we want to avoid blending […]
Sharing between dissociative Parts
In DID, there is a separation between parts who contain different emotions, memories, abilities and different levels of awareness for body sensations. It is very common that parts represent polar opposites. One has barely any emotion, the other has way too much of it. One remembers trauma and the other doesn’t. And maybe one […]
Unblending overlapping dissociative Parts
Blending is a temporary experience where dissociative barriers are not as strong as usual and the inner experience of one part overlaps with the awareness of another. It does not feel like an intrusion from a strange, different part. For a limited time, it becomes our own experience. Blending in itself is not problematic if […]
House of Healing: After-Care for Memory Processing with dissociative Parts
There are different ways to approach trauma processing with dissociative parts. All of them are exhausting and slightly incomplete. Our therapy sessions are long enough to work with the memory but they are never long enough to deal with all the feelings of hurt and injury, they can never cover a whole recuperation phase. What […]
Co-regulating stress responses of inner parts
Parts can have vastly different experiences at the same time. While we are calm and oriented, other parts might be highly dysregulated. Their dysregulated states can leak into our experience and make us feel uncomfortable and sometimes it can outright flood us so that we lose our own regulation. It is also unpleasant and unfair […]
Somatic Experiencing – Good for DID Treatment?
Somatic Experiencing is a body-focused trauma therapy that was developed by Peter Levine. It is based on the idea that trauma is not mainly a problem of memory or attachment. The theory is that survival energy that was mobilized during dangerous situations could not properly dissolve (usually because of limited ability to move the way […]
Halfway home – bridging the gap between worlds
When we work with our DID system, we can face situations where traumatized parts were cut off from the normal world. They have never been in contact with it and all they know is the world that the abusers created around them. Especially in organized abuse, the world that they know will have a limited […]
Rescripting with DID parts: Same Technique – different Missions
[Disclaimer: This article is based on personal experience with a bunch of different but similar rescripting techniques. For DID therapy, rescripting in IFS barely differs from rescripting with IRRT or similar techniques because all of them have to be adapted. Once they are adapted we can notice two different patterns for inner processes instead of just […]
Managers, Exiles and Firefighters in DID
Using IFS for DID therapy is a mixed bag. There is advanced training that does support DID therapy but many people with DID who are confronted with the basic training feel alienated and like something about it is off. It was not developed with dissociative barriers in mind. There is still a basic dynamic that […]
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