Treating people suffering with trauma disorders present the clinician with several challenges and dilemmas. How does one diagnose and treat a trauma survivor from a psychodynamic or psychoanalytic perspective? How does the clinician understand changes in self-states, moods, and shifting affective states? Are we treating developmental trauma, or the kind of trauma that leads to Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID, see Criterion A in DSM-V). Is DID real? Some additional issues include working with multiple transferences and frequent enactments, working with parts who are unaware of their multiplicity, working through conflict and discord between parts who have co-consciousness, and addressing parts that are self-destructive and/or potentially harmful to others.
Presented by Sheldon Itzkowitz, PhD

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