Dissociative Identity Disorder: Diagnosis, Clinical Features And Treatment Of Multiple Personality

Description

The book thoroughly examines the complex and disturbing disorder popularly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, renamed Dissociative Identity Disorder in the new DSM-IV. It covers the diagnosis, dynamics, assessment, differential diagnosis, and treatment of this disorder and presents significant new research findings.

Author description

COLIN A. ROSS, MD, is Medical Director of the Dissociative Disorders Program at the Charter Behavioral Health System of Dallas, a private psychiatric facility. In 1995 he formed the Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma, which provides education, conducts research, and delivers clinical services with a focus on psychological trauma and dissociative disorders. A past president of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation, he is the author of The Osiris Complex: Case Studies in Multiple Personality Disorder, Satanic Ritual Abuse: Principles of Treatment, and Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry.

Table of contents

THE HISTORY OF DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER.; The History Prior to and Including Freud.; Freud to the Present.; DIAGNOSIS AND CLINICAL FEATURES OF DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER.; Epidemiology of Dissociative Identity Disorder and Dissociation.; Clinical Features of Dissociative Identity Disorder.; Structured Interview and Self--Report Measures of Dissociation.; Dissociative Identity Disorder and Other Psychiatric Disorders.; Dissociative Identity Disorder and Nonclinical Dissociation.; Skeptical Criticisms of Dissociative Identity Disorder.; TREATMENT OF DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER.; Treatment Outcome of Dissociative Identity Disorder.; General Principles of Treatment.; The Problem of Attachment to the Perpetrator and the Locus of Control Shift.; Specific Techniques of Treatment: The Middle and Late Phases of Therapy.; Other Therapeutic Considerations.; Afterword--Dissociative Identity Disorder in the Twenty--First Century.; Appendices.; References.; Indexes.