Multiple Personality Disorder Explained
If you are interested in understanding
how Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) (also called Dissociative Identity
Disorder or DID) is formed, this may be the web site you are looking
for. A theory developed on this web site offers an explanation of MPD
or DID in the course of explaining how the personality is formed and
and works. This theory is based totally on clinical experience and it
is easily accepted by the persons reading this self help course. Here
is how I learned this theory and its use in the free self-help course
offered on this page.
In 1993, I had learned a healing process
that involves tapping on acupressure points. While treating a patient,
her subconscious started tickling her on one of her acupressure points,
namely, under her nose. This eventually led me to find out that the
subconscious could heal internally.
Since
then, I worked with many patients with Multiple Personality Disorder.
They were my teachers. From the above insight and experience, I developed
this model of the personality and brain functions. I use this model
to establish rapport with all aspects, dissociative or amnesic parts,
in a patient's personality. I also learned how to teach the healing
process to the subconscious. This approach is very safe and respectful.
The figure shows
a metaphor of the personality that has been validated by all of my patients.
The Active Experience is a neural structure that operates on all internal
and external sensory input, the current behavior, learned processes
like, composing and editing of language, and all memories that are elicited
into the active expedience by the content and emotions already active
in the active experience. This
generates all overt and covert behavior. A dissociation
process causes the conscious and unconscious minds. Both have active
memory. The dissociation process leads to the formation of dissociated
parts. Amnesic parts are formed with novel, extreme trauma and are different
than dissociated parts. With anmesic parts, there are few neural connections
between the amnesic part and the main personality. Dissociated parts
appear to be hidden because the dissociation part operates on the memories
to hide them.
Amnesic memories are like new personality parts that "live"
during some novel, intense, life-threatening expedience. Dissociated
memories and are easily made conscious with hypnotic techniques. Amnesic
memories are much more difficult to make conscious because they appear
to be hidden by more basic neural phenomenon.
The free healing process uses this theory to establish rapport with
all aspects or parts of you. When all parts of you want you to learn
the healing process, then you read a simple metaphor that teaches the
subconscious how to diagnose and heal painful issues, phobias, etc.
The parts can usually be healed easily and without any flooding of emotions.
I call this treatment technique Process Healing.
If you are interested in reading more about this. the
Home page has links to how this view
of dissociative disorder was discovered, to the theory behind it, or
to a Description of the healing process and how it is used to heal
Multiple Personality Disorder or Dissociative Identity disorder.
You can also link directly to the free self help Process Healing Course.
I hope you find this web site interesting and helpful.
(Rev. 11-30-01)
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