Wednesday, February 28, 1990

Time Distortions in Dissociative Identity Disorder: Janetian Concepts and Treatment.

David Baldwin's Trauma Information, Articles:
Van der Hart & Steele (1997)

Time Distortions in Dissociative Identity Disorder: Janetian Concepts and Treatment.

Originally published in Dissociation, 1997, 10(2), 91-103. [Posted here with permission of the authors and Journal Editor.]

Disturbances in a sense of reality and time are especially dramatic in trauma-induced disorders, including dissociative identity disorder (DID). Observing that therapeutic change involves reorganizing the patient's experience of reality and time, Onno van der Hart and Kathy Steele describe therapeutic approaches that can assist this reorganization, within their phase-oriented treatment model. They integrate Pierre Janet's contributions regarding time disturbances with more contemporary work relating time disturbances to trauma, and offer case examples. 52 references. "
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