出版社:Dissociative Disorders Research Publications,International Society for the Study of Dissociation, ,University of Oregon Scholars' Bank
摘要:I was puzzled. When I had been called for an emergency
I had not expected this: There was a twenty-year-old woman
lying fearfully with closed eyes on her bed, not reacting to
any word or helpful gesture the nurse made. After another
effort to speak with her, another nurse brought the patient's
file. It was there that we found a remark that she had made
to her therapist: "I believe there are others in me. Their
names are..." It was then that I remembered things that I
had heard not long ago. I had not expected, however, that
I would come across a dissociative disorder that was considered
"extremely rare" so quickly. It had only been a year previously,
in 1991, when I had been resident at the Mental
Research Institute in Palo Alto and heard about dissociative
identity disorder (DID) . It was there that an experienced psychologist
had told me about his treatments of DID patients,
had given me more to read on the subject, and had brought
me in contact with a study group and the ISSD. So here I was,
a continent away from the experts I knew and was faced with
my first DID patient. In the following diagnostic interview, a
"protector" personality was contacted, the diagnosis DID was
confirmed, and treatment was begun. As it turned out, the
initial state in which we had seen the patient had been a fearful
child that had not known where it had been.