“There may be a fleeting and tantalising (from the point of view of both patient and therapist) ability to find the therapist helpful when in contact with the therapist, but there is always the fear for the DID patient of the therapist changing into a malign object, of realising they have been tricked again. Secondly there is the problem not only of object consistency but of object permanence, whereby the therapist ceases to exist as an object between sessions. Thirdly there is the problem at the Therapist being introjected by one personality, and that link being then enviously attacked by another personality in a way that is hidden from the view of the therapist.”