Dissociative identity disorder: Integration versus non-integration

• Main Author: Strande, Kris Jane
• Format: Others
• Published: CSUSB ScholarWorks 2000
• Subjects: Dissociative disorders > Psychological aspects; Multiple personality; Personality > Psychological aspects; Psychiatric and Mental Health
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1699; https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2699&context=etd-project

For the mental health professional, the client with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) can be exciting, exhausting and frustrating. Formal education offers little help in treatment and diagnosis of this disorder. This paper will explore the most utilized treatment goals available to the professional and the client. Although most "experts" in the field of Dissociative Disorders subscribe to the treatment goal of integration, this study challenges that idea. As the results of the study indicate, integration was not the most utilized goal of treatment among the participants of this study.