Multiple Personality Disorder Explained
If you are interested in understanding how Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) (also called Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID) is formed, this may be the web site you are looking for. A theory developed on this web site offers an explanation of MPD or DID in the course of explaining how the personality is formed and and works. This theory is based totally on clinical experience and it is easily accepted by the persons reading this self help course. Here is how I learned this theory and its use in the free self-help course offered on this page.
In 1993, I had learned a healing process that involves tapping on acupressure points. While treating a patient, her subconscious started tickling her on one of her acupressure points, namely, under her nose. This eventually led me to find out that the subconscious could heal internally.
Since then, I worked with many patients with Multiple Personality Disorder. They were my teachers. From the above insight and experience, I developed this model of the personality and brain functions. I use this model to establish rapport with all aspects, dissociative or amnesic parts, in a patient’s personality. I also learned how to teach the healing process to the subconscious. This approach is very safe and respectful. The figure shows a metaphor of the personality that has been validated by all of my patients.
The Active Experience is a neural structure that operates on all internal and external sensory input, the current behavior, learned processes like, composing and editing of language, and all memories that are elicited into the active expedience by the content and emotions already active in the active experience. This generates all overt and covert behavior. A dissociation process causes the conscious and unconscious minds. Both have active memory. The dissociation process leads to the formation of dissociated parts. Amnesic parts are formed with novel, extreme trauma and are different than dissociated parts. With anmesic parts, there are few neural connections between the amnesic part and the main personality. Dissociated parts appear to be hidden because the dissociation part operates on the memories to hide them.
Amnesic memories are like new personality parts that “live” during some novel, intense, life-threatening expedience. Dissociated memories and are easily made conscious with hypnotic techniques. Amnesic memories are much more difficult to make conscious because they appear to be hidden by more basic neural phenomenon.
The free healing process uses this theory to establish rapport with all aspects or parts of you. When all parts of you want you to learn the healing process, then you read a simple metaphor that teaches the subconscious how to diagnose and heal painful issues, phobias, etc. The parts can usually be healed easily and without any flooding of emotions. I call this treatment technique Process Healing.
If you are interested in reading more about this. the Home page has links to how this view of dissociative disorder was discovered, to the theory behind it, or to a Description of the healing process and how it is used to heal Multiple Personality Disorder or Dissociative Identity disorder. You can also link directly to the free self help Process Healing Course.
I hope you find this web site interesting and helpful.
(N.B. The course referred to above is not currently full reconstructed from the Way Back Machine.)