December, 2009

How Abusive Control can lead to Producing Alter Personalities

It is important to understand how control works and how it contributes to a person’s struggle inside to be one or to be whole. The alters serve the purpose of representing the personality who sought freedom or escape from the situation that was out of their control. The alter personalities also keep the person from living as one whole...

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Understanding the Purpose of Alter Personalities ~ Part 2 of 5

In part two of this video series, I talk about the history of how I came to understand what was happening with clients who had developed multiple personalities and why I deal with clients the way that I do in the areas of multiple personality disorder and dissociative identity. I explain why I have come to view DID and MPD as a coping...

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Multiple Personality ~ aka ~ Dissociated Identity Disorder

In this 5 part video series, I talk about some of the aspects regarding Multiple Personality Disorder or Dissociated Identity Disorder, as it is more recently called. In this first video I look at the cause. If you or someone you love suspects that you have this disorder, or if you have been diagnosed with Dissociated Identity Disorder, there is hope. I have had success in my practice on the...

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Refusing to be a Victim yet still Victimized

In this video I talk about the victim mindset and particularly focus on the double mindedness of victims who refuse to live as victims but are still being victimized. This is common among people in the process of learning to come out of their victim situations, and out of their survivor instincts, insisting that they are no longer living as victims, not realizing that they are not free from...

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Online Therapy For Eating Disorders

Due to some of the unique issues related to working with a client who has an eating disorder, there are some really advantageous aspects of having therapy sessions online. Many people with eating disorders have a need to be in control at all times and one of the benefits of online counseling is that they get a greater amount of control...

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