How do we cure Multiple Personality Disorder

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Table of contents for Multiple personality disoder

  1. Multiple Personality Disorder : The controvesy disease
  2. 6 Major Symptom of Multiple Personality Disorder
  3. How do we cure Multiple Personality Disorder

From the overview of MPD, we are informed that this disease does not have any fixed drug to cure it. However, researches  have be conducted few years ago showing that, MPD is curable.

In year 1993 study of 640 MPD patients, the most common treatment for MPD is long term psychotherapy twice a week. During these sessions, the therapist must develop a trusting relationship with the core personality and each of the alters.

Quote from Wikipedia™,

Treatment of DID may attempt to reconnect the identities of disparate alters into a single functioning identity. In addition or instead, treatment may focus on symptoms, to relieve the distressing aspects of the condition and ensure the safety of the individual. Treatment methods may include psychotherapy and medications for comorbid disorders. Some behavior therapists initially use behavioral treatments such as only responding to a single identity, and using more traditional therapy once a consistent response is established. It has been stated that treatment recommendations that follow from models that do not believe in the traumatic origins of DID might be harmful due to the fact that they ignore the posttraumatic symptomatology of people with DID.

Revisiting and reworking the trauma is the next stage. This may involve abreactions, which can release pain and allow dissociated trauma back into the normal memory track. An abreaction might be described as the vivid re-experiencing of a traumatic event accompanied by the release of related emotion and the recovery of repressed or dissociated aspects of that event (Steele & Colrain, 1990).

The retrieval of traumatic memories should be staged with planned abreactions. Hypnosis, when facilitated by a trained professional, is extremely useful in abreactive work to safely contain the abreaction and release the painful emotions more quickly. Some survivors may only be able to do abreactive work on an inpatient basis in a safe and supportive environment. In any setting, the work must be paced and contained to prevent retraumatization and to give the client a feeling of mastery. This means that the speed of the work must be carefully monitored, and the release painful material must be thoughtfully managed and controlled, so as not to be overwhelming.

An abreaction of a person diagnosed with MPD may involve a number of different alters, who must all participate in the work. The reworking of the trauma involves sharing the abuse story, undoing unnecessary shame and guilt, doing some anger work, and grieving. Grief work pertains to both the abuse and abandonment and the damage to one’s life. Throughout this mid-level work, there is integration of memories and, in MPD, alternate personalities; the substitution of adult methods of coping for dissociation; and the learning of new life skills.


Posted by fullmetal90   @   2 December 2009

 

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