Dissociative Ego States and Dissociative Identity Disorder

Psychologists and psychotherapists who have extensive clinical experience in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, say – the most striking characteristic of “Ego” of an individual is the following fact: it is fragmented into several partial split-off of their own “Ego”, each of which represents some of the features. Psychology and Psychotherapy attributed to him are typical cases: the identity of the host (it is the most obvious, most often seek treatment for neurosis and has a tendency to experience anxiety, depression, sadness and fear), infantile and child components, internal persecutors, victims, advocates and helpers, and as part of their own “Ego”, designed for special purposes. Psychoanalysts found that the “owner” can not know all, some or none of them. This applies to each part of your own “Ego”.

Skeptical people have difficulty to understand how the digital and “real” part may be apparent for both the dissociating individual and for the knowledgeable associates.

Considering all of dissociative identity of the individual as the subject of complex musical composition, you can find some “nuclear beliefs” that are generated by children as abuse. The psychologist-psychotherapist S. Ross, discussing the “cognitive map” in violation of the type of multiple personality, summed up these deep beliefs in the following way:

1. Different parts of “Ego” are separate and disparate, able to experience the emotional states (fear, pleasure, stress, depression, ecstasy, etc.).
2. The victim is responsible for abuse.
3. Do not show anger (frustration, defiance, critical attitude, etc.)
4. The past – it is now.
5. Home may not contain the identity of memories.
6. I love my parents, but “she” hates them.
7. Main person can be punished.
8. I can not trust myself or others.

Ross then divides each of these beliefs, showing the components of their beliefs and the inevitable extrapolation. For example:

2. The victim is responsible for abuse.
a) Of course, I was very bad, otherwise it did not happen.
b) If I was perfect, it would not have happened.
c) I deserve punishment for my anger.
d) If I was perfect, I would not be angry.
e) I never feel anger – “she” is bad.
e) She deserves to be punished for being allowed to happen abuse.
g) She deserves to be punished for something that shows her anger.

Psychoanalysis has extensive information on how to create a psychological consultation access to parts of the personality and how to eliminate the amnesic barriers so that these parts could eventually be integrated into a single person with all the memories, feelings, and valuable qualities that were previously sequestered (isolated) and are not available. The main fact which psychologist-consultant should remember is – “each” of them is the patient. Even the most unpleasant part of the individual is pursuing a valuable, potentially adaptive for the patient. Even if the parts are not clear, the psychoanalyst must assume that they hear at the moment, and must be handled in the course of providing psychological support to their interests, talking “through” accessible personality.