I’m Here by Nancy-Lee Mauger You Can Have Dissociative Identity Disorder and Thrive ! Are you shocked to hear that a mental health professional with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is able to lead a productive life? You need not be. Many individuals with DID live healthy and fulfilling lives (ISSTD, n.d.). However, as a result of […]
Parts Psychology: A Trauma-Based Treatment Approach
Parts psychology is an innovative trauma treatment that heals painful memories by working with subpersonalities (parts). Dr. Jay Noricks explains how parts psychology differs from IFS, the 4-step protocol (define problem, find the part, elicit memories, neutralize pain), treating DID clients, and why visualization, not talk therapy, neutralizes trauma memories. Extremely efficient: average 20 sessions.
Battered Women’s Protective Strategies – Book Review
Do you work with women who are physically abused and wonder how best to help them? Contrary to public opinion and the views of many domestic violence agencies, leaving the batterer is not necessarily the only or best solution available to intimate violence survivors. Sherry Hamby proposes in her book: Battered Women’s Protective Strategies, an […]
Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder
Growing Together by Nancy-Lee Mauger This artwork exhibits 25 parts of the artist; Shy (26th) chose to remain hidden. Would you be able to correctly diagnose an individual with Dissociation Identity Disorder (DID)? Between 1-3% of the general population have this mental illness, but only about 6% of them actually present with visibly distinct alternate identities. […]
Beginnings, Middles, & Ends – Book Review
Are you wondering what it’s like to be a social worker? Or if you are a social worker, wouldn’t it be nice if there were a book that could make you feel understood, give you advice and/or make you laugh? Beginnings, Middles, & Ends: Sideways Stories on the Art & Soul of Social Work by […]
