Articles About: Professional Resources

Loneliness and the Vanishing Twin Syndrome


Loneliness is an unnatural and painful emptiness which haunts all human beings from time to time. People who have dissociative...

World Events Shake DID People


Some of the dissociative persons with whom you associate may be unusually shaken these days. Many of the tens of...

Labels


How do our clients with Dissociative Identity Disorder see themselves? How are they labeled by the medical community, educational world,...

The Role of the Host


I only remember one event of meeting a client for the first time and never again meeting that particular alter...

The Amazing Protector Maze


A major goal when working with the dissociative client is to find, befriend, and elicit the help of the protector/s....

The Function of Reporters and Saboteurs


Many people with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) become extremely frustrated due to interesting situations in which they find themselves compromised...

Tools for Discovering Facets of the DID Person


When I think of this topic, the song lyrics, “Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You…”, by...

Change Factors in Healing


The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. The initial step to change is the admission that...

Assessing Safety Needs for People with DID


People have to be safe to heal.  Persons who have suffered significant trauma in their lives have learned to be...

Our King Can Put Humpty Dumpty Together Again!


Understanding DID “We don’t know what to do with these people!  They are pouring off the streets into our home...