Engaging Multiple Personalities Volume 1: Contextual Case Histories

by David Yeung

Overview

The general public is bewildered and fascinated by Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder. Through books, television and movies, a distorted view of DID is often presented. While it may make for good entertainment, it fails to truly present the depth and intensity of the inherent trauma. Outside the ordinary day-to-day life experience of most people, it is hard to understand.

Ignoring past trauma simply will not help a patient.
In his psychiatric practice, the author encountered a number of his patients' alters face-to-face. He found that the most effective course of therapy was to engage them directly.

Talking to alters is a strange, serious and ultimately compelling experience. They are not real according to our customary definitions, but neither are they false or fake. They are survivors of childhood abuse, present in shared flesh and blood.

The author discusses the phenomenon of DID through case histories, and how it manifests clinically. Most important, he elucidates techniques necessary to help these traumatized patients heal. DID patients can successfully engage in and profit from therapy. By processing the impact of their past traumatic memory, they may reclaim their present.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940155552758
Publisher:	David Yeung
Publication date:	03/18/2018
Series:	Engaging Multiple Personalities , #1
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

I received my medical degree and psychiatric training in Hong Kong. I continued my training in London, England and in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada where I became a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. After having practiced psychiatry on three continents and over four decades, I retired in 2006. Although my education was considered quite thorough, there was nothing taught about DID. Nevertheless, in my practice of over 40 years in a variety of settings, I encountered a number of individuals with Multiple Personality Disorder. They gave me a tremendous gift, windows into their worlds. I wrote this book to honor my DID patients, those I was able to help and those, unfortunately, who I was not. During my years of practice, most of my colleagues dismissed DID even as they referred their dissociative patients to me. It is my hope and aspiration that this book will enable therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists to build upon my experience so as to be able to correctly diagnose and treat DID. Even more important, I hope that the material in the book assists DID patients to see their own path to healing.