Childhood Antecedents of Multiple Personality Disorders

By: Kluft, Richard P.

Book Overview

Childhood Antecedents of Multiple Personality Disorder includes topics such as the effect of child abuse on the psyche, the development of multiple personality disorder: predisposing, precipitating, and perpetuating factors, and the relationship among dissociation, hypnosis, and child abuse in the development of multiple personality disorder.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880480823
• ISBN13: 9780880480826
• Release Date: September 1985
• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent for health providers and caregivers

Excellenct source of information on the basic principles in conducting the psychotherapy of MPD/DID and the tranference and countertransference in the overall treatment of MPD/DID. For both health providers and caregivers. Issues of Multiple Posttraumatic and the clinical approaches to the Intergration of Personalities is really informative and helpful.Tactical integrationist of and the treatment of DID/MPD and the aids to the treatment of on a General Psyciatric Unit are a must read for providers and caregivers alike.Section 3 deals with the issue of Dissociation within the Inner city, Deinstitutionlization of patients with chronic MPD/DID and the use of Amtyal interviews in the treatment of the exceptionally complex caes of MPD/DID. The role of transional objects and phenomena in patients with MPD/DID, Play therapy with minors with MPD/DID, and Ego state therapy with patients and the use of sand trays in the beginning stages of treatment.The last section is about MPD/DID consulation in Public Psychiatric care, Eating disorders in survivors of Multimodal childhood abuse, be it physical or mental/emotional. Eating disorders in the MPD/DID patient and finally an overall history of MPD/DID and how the treatment has evolved and matured.