• Engaging Multiple Personalities Volume 4
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Warning
  • Preface
  • Introduction for Volume 4 The Collected Blog Posts
  • 1 The Purpose of this Blog Collection
    • 1.1 A Wonderful Use of This Blog and Engaging Multiple Personalities Volume 1 and 2
    • 1.2 On Using the 3 Engaging Multiple Personalities Volumes
    • 1.3 Post Stroke Thoughts
    • 1.4 Surprising Responses to Engaging Multiple Personalities
  • 2 The Foundations of Hope
    • 2.1 The Importance of Hope
    • 2.2 On being a supportive spouse/partner
    • 2.3 The Power of Dissociation
    • 2.4 Spirituality and the Healing of Traumatic Wounds
    • 2.5 Co-consciousness
    • 2.6 Christianity and Forgiveness – Part 1
    • 2.7 Christianity and Forgiveness – Part 2
    • 2.8 Instilling Hope
    • 2.9 Imagery and Imagination in Healing
    • 2.10 Do Young Alters Need to Age?
    • 2.11 Progress in the DID Community – Part 1 of 2
    • 2.12 Progress in the DID Community – Part 2 of 2
    • 2.13 The Therapeutic Alliance – Part 1: Our Fundamental Humanity
    • 2.14 The Therapeutic Alliance – Part 2: Genuineness, Acceptance, And Empathy
    • 2.15 Using a Card for Communication
  • 3 The Importance of Grounding
    • 3.1 Grounding Exercises and Working with Flashbacks
    • 3.2 Mindfulness Meditation and DID
    • 3.3 Breathing
    • 3.4 The Meaning of Forgiveness – Part 1
    • 3.5 The Meaning of Forgiveness – Part 2
    • 3.6 Comments on Depression and Integration from Healing Together Conference presentation
    • 3.7 Avoid Retraumatization
    • 3.8 The Trap of Forgiveness
    • 3.9 Working with flashbacks
    • 3.10 Panic Attacks
    • 3.11 Self-Soothing Techniques for Those Unable to Locate a DID Therapist – Part 1 of 3: Background
    • 3.12 Self-Soothing Techniques for Those Unable to Locate a DID Therapist – Part 2 of 3: Practical Suggestions
      • A. Create Imagery For Yourself That Is A Sanctuary, A Place Of Refuge.
      • B. Stay Connected To Your Body
      • C. Stay Connected with Others.
      • D. Being With Animals.
    • 3.13 Self-Soothing Techniques for Those Unable to Locate a DID Therapist – Part 3 of 3: Practical Suggestions Continued and Conclusion
      • E. Slowly Engage The Practice Of Mindfulness – Including Walking Meditation
      • F. Establish Empowering Rituals.
    • 3.14 Anxiety and Panic Disorders
    • 3.15 When You Don’t Want to Leave Your Therapist
    • 3.16 Anxiety – Part 1: Symptom and Message
    • 3.17 Anxiety – Part 2: Patterns and Recommendations
      • Key Remedies to Consider:
    • 3.18 Anxiety – Part 3 Meditating on Anxiety
    • 3.19 How To Worry Constructively – Part 1
    • 3.20 How To Worry Constructively – Part 2
    • 3.21 Working with Self-Victimization
    • 3.22 Weighted Blankets and the Sensation of Safety
    • 3.23 The Sensation of Touch
      • Therapeutic Touch
    • 3.24 Countering the Far Reaching Effects of Humiliation Part 1 – Disempowerment
    • 3.25 Countering the Far Reaching Effects of Humiliation Part 2 – Elements of Humiliation
    • 3.26 Countering the Far Reaching Effects of Humiliation – Part 3 Dignity, Humiliation, Respect
    • 3.27 Countering the Far Reaching Effects of Humiliation Part 4 – The Power of Angry Alters
    • 3.28 Countering the Far Reaching Effects of Humiliation Part 5 – Healing From Early Childhood Humiliation
  • 4 Engaging Alters in Conflict
    • 4.1 Working with Angry Alters
    • 4.2 Working with Despair and Anger
    • 4.3 When Alters Despair
    • 4.4 Engaging with Many Voices
    • 4.5 Communicating With Alters That Don’t Speak
    • 4.6 When Alters Attack Inside
    • 4.7 Encouraging Empathy Within DID Systems
  • 5 Advice to Clinicians
    • 5.1 Support group feedback
    • 5.2 The Therapeutic Window
    • 5.3 David Yeung Comments on Psychiatric Times SRA article
    • 5.4 The 5% Rule
    • 5.5 Advice for Novice DID Therapists
    • 5.6 Treating Massive Multiplicity
    • 5.7 Misdiagnosing DID
    • 5.8 Why some clinicians refuse to acknowledge DID
    • 5.9 Alters are not the pathology
    • 5.10 DID and Schizophrenia – Part 1
    • 5.11 DID and Schizophrenia – Part 2
    • 5.12 Characterizing DID: Illness or Injury?
    • 5.13 The Body Keeps The Score
    • 5.14 Guidelines for Therapists On First Encounters with a DID Alter
    • 5.15 When Patients Present Memories of Abuse
    • 5.16 Roots of Psychiatry: The Reality of Childhood Trauma
    • 5.17 On Calling Out Alters
    • 5.18 Is Depression Just a Chemical Imbalance?
    • 5.19 Working with Traumatic Memory: Practically Speaking
    • 5.20 Should Integration Be The Goal in Therapy?
    • 5.21 Should Closure Be A Goal in Therapy?
    • 5.22 Resetting The Nervous System after Trauma Part 1
    • 5.23 Resetting the Nervous System after Trauma – Part 2
    • 5.24 Complex PTSD – Part 1
      • Understanding PTSD and Complex PTSD
      • Complex-PTSD
      • Prognosis of Complex PTSD
    • 5.25 Complex PTSD – Part 2
      • Understanding the mind-body connection in Complex-PTSD
    • 5.26 Complex PTSD – Part 3
      • Integrating Approaches in the Treatment of PTSD
      • An Integrated Approach to Treating PTSD
      • The right direction
    • 5.27 Repeating Myself Again
      • 1. Corrective emotional experience
      • 2. The Time Factor for Therapists
      • 3. Leaving the Past Behind
      • 4. Out of Sight, Out of Mind
      • 5. Practice Kindness
    • 5.28 Diagnostic Labels
    • 5.29 Inviting Alters to Therapy
    • 5.30 Empathy For Therapists: Part 1
    • 5.31 Empathy For Therapists: Part 2
    • 5.32 On Mapping Systems
    • 5.33 Considering the Use of Drugs in DID Treatment – Part 1
    • 5.34 Considering the Use of Drugs in DID Treatment: Part 2 – Depression and Antidepressants
    • 5.35 Considering the Use of Drugs in DID Treatment: Part 3 – The Widespread Prescribing of Antidepressants
    • 5.36 Considering the Use of Drugs in DID Treatment: Part 4 – Understanding the Clinical Presentation
    • 5.37 Considering the Use of Drugs in DID Treatment: Part 5 – Diagnostic Bias in Files
    • 5.38 Considering the Use of Drugs in DID Treatment: Part 6 Determining Treatment for Depression in DID
    • 5.39 Considering the Use of Drugs in DID Treatment: Part 7 – Go Slowly
    • 5.40 Considering the Use of Drugs in DID Treatment: Part 8 – A Sales Channel Is Not Therapy
    • 5.41 Treating DID – A Brief Summary of Key Points: Part 1
      • Treating DID
    • 5.42 Treating DID – A Brief Summary of Key Points: Part 2
    • 5.43 Treating DID – A Brief Summary of Key Points: Part 3
    • 5.44 Religion and Working with Trauma Survivors – Part 1
    • 5.45 Religion and Working with Trauma Survivors – Part 2
    • 5.46 Correcting Misunderstandings about Recovered Memory – Part 1 of 3
    • 5.47 Correcting Misunderstandings about Recovered Memory – Part 2 of 3
    • 5.48 Correcting Misunderstandings about Recovered Memory – Part 3 of 3
    • 5.49 The Devastating Clinical Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect
  • 6 Society and DID
    • 6.1 Reflections On Responding To Reports Of Abuse By Public Figures
    • 6.2 The Focus in Documentaries
    • 6.3 Disclosing Your DID: A Cautionary Note
    • 6.4 The Failure to Acknowledge – Comparing Abuse in the Military and Childhood Trauma
    • 6.5 Trigger Warning: News of Abuse by Men in Power Part 1
    • 6.6 Trigger Warning: News of Abuse by Men in Power Part 2
    • 6.7 Trigger Warning: Reports of abuse by men in power Part 3
    • 6.8 Why Ordinary People Deny Testimony of Abuse
    • 6.9 Public Virtue and Private Abuse – Part 1 of 2
    • 6.10 Coping With Anxiety in the Pandemic
  • Afterword
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Engaging Multiple Personalities

Engaging Multiple Personalities

Volume 4: The Collected Blog Posts

David Yeung

2020-04-22

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BISAC: Psychology / Psychopathology / Dissociative Identity Disorder