Multiple Personality Disorder

The Wreathing Protocol: The Imbrication of Hypnosis and EMDR in the Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder and other Dissociative Responses

“…among the various personalities. Fine (1990Fine ( , 1991Fine ( ,1992, though agreeing with KIuft, prefers to concretize the treatment goal using Braun's (1988) BASK model of dissociation. She would state that the goal of treatment is that all personalities need to attain identical BASK experiences.…”

“…If premature or misaligned abreactive work occurs, the message to the DID patient is that past experiences contained within parts of the mind remain overwhelming and unmanageable, and that they should continue to be avoided at all cost. Therefore, because of the easy affective destabilization of the DID patient (Fine, 1991(Fine, , 1992(Fine, , 1993(Fine, , 1996a, great caution should be exercised in the use of EMDR because it is such a powerful methodology (Fine, 1999; The Wreathing Protocol Lazrove & Fine, 1996;Paulsen,1995).…”

Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Relevance of Behavior Analysis

“…That is to say, when in Rome and unsure of what to do, persons with DID-like behaviors may not attend to or imitate the behavior of other Romans. Instead, these persons may arrive at an inflexible selfinstruction (Fine, 1992) by which to behave or they may attempt to engage in what they judge to be appropriate behavior by trying to observe their own behavior without using social comparisons. Keller and Schoenfeld (1950) described the person as having "the ability to use one's own behavior as the SO for further behavior, verbal or otherwise" (p. 369); here, the person uses his or her own behavior as a guide presumably to a greater extent than the normal individual.…”

“…These individuals have dissociated their self-observations and resulting reports from the reports of others. As a result, they have observations that are not as controlled by the public environment but are instead a function of their own distorted verbal governances (Fine, .1992).…”

“…In the past, the person with the present DID-like behaviors learned to attend to and rely more heavily upon his own observations of how he felt, what he needed, whether he was "good" or "bad:' and so forth, (Fine, 1992;Keller & Schoenfeld, 1950). This behavior may have been caused by either neglect or abuse, both of which were possibly delivered without regard to what the child did.…”