Dissociative Identity Disorder: Treatment and Management

by Hassaan Tohid

Accordingly, it is in service of the patient’s safety as well as eventual integration that mapping the patient’s identity system is often employed as a means of appreciating its baseline structure on presentation and any changes to it throughout treatment [16]. Whether a DID patient can ultimately gain a model of their own identity system is often dependent on the clinician’s capacity to do so. This process typically requires mending ruptures of the therapeutic alliance that may occur throughout treatment and especially when engaging alternate identities that developed in traumatic circumstances with the patient still “not wanting to know now what was not known then”