Download or read book Then They Were One Fusion Without Abreaction written by Dr Earl W Flora Psyd and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book was written for the mental health professional, be they graduate students or seasoned professionals of all mental health disciplines. It is not for the general public. It is not a self-help, do it yourself book. The motive was to share with his colleagues, around the globe, either engaged in actively treating Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) clients or those considering expanding their practice into the area of DID or graduate students with his positive experiences in bringing all the DID true alters together without re-traumatizing them through the use of abreaction or any form of it. The author will be taking you, step by step, on his 27-year journey of discovery in the diagnosis and treatment of DID. First and foremost you will discover the answer to the challenge, "How to fuse alters without causing them to be retraumatized over and over again, through abreaction." He does it in 60 seconds or less, and they stay together. Secondly, He shares a well known, but apparently seldom used, "question" that shortens the diagnosis of DID from month's to seconds. He describes the scientific basis for his "As If" technique and offers four variations: One from a Judeo/Christian perspective, one from a secular perspective, one from a Wiccan perspective, and a variation for young children. With client consent, the author allows the reader to sit in on various therapy sessions. To witness, first hand, the inner workings of his techniques from the normal to the bazaar. Finally, several successful fully integrated clients graciously volunteered to include their personal testimonies. You will be moved, inspired and hopefully motivated to get involved in treating DID by the personal accounts of their courageous journey to full integration without abreaction. The book was deliberately kept short so that anyone could conceivably read it in one sitting to get the full impact. One can imagine how much material one can collect in 27 years. The notes have been gleaned to give the reader the most salient aspects of Dr. Flora's techniques. In the future, as feedback comes in, the author will be including pertinent additions. Do not make the mistake of dismissing the techniques because they appear too good to be true. These techniques appear simple and they are but they work. I challenge all of you to consider supplementing your techniques with these tried and true methods of removing the hurt, pain and suffering for both your clients/patients and yourselves. If as a nameless therapist wrote in his book, don't you become desensitized by using abreaction to bring true alters together. Even if it does not bother you at all, remember our pledge "Do No Harm." I know abreaction works but a famous therapist said, (You can find his name in the book) "Abreaction is like surgery without anesthesia." I rest my case. Consider your client and try the "As If" technique for everybody's benefit. The authors goal is final fusion. However, his experience, as others, is many DID clients drop out of therapy before the goal is achieved for various reasons. We stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us. We owe them a debt of gratitude. We still have much to learn as it's said in the text, This is a work in progress. To all my colleagues keep up the good work and to those on the sidelines, JOIN US! YOU ARE NEEDED TO BRING HEALING AND MEANING INTO THE LIVES OF OVER 107,115,000 DID SUFFERS AROUND THE WORLD!
Download or read book Then They Were One written by Earl Flora and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following is an edited version of what was written by a middle-aged married Caucasian female, mother of three who originally presented with 137 alters. She writes from her perspective as experiencing the transition from the "modified abreactive therapy" to the non-abreactive "As If" technique in the early 1990's. (Note: The complete narrative is in CHAPTER SEVEN.) She wrote: "It has decreased the amount of time it takes to join and integrate alter personalities in the core. This method eliminates the suffering and perceptual disturbances associated with joining alters together. In the past, I have endured the discovery and integration process of 43 alter personalities, each joining like a climax after a period of painful discovery. Through my experience, it has become evident that the use of abreaction is totally unnecessary. It is not necessary to re-experience the pain in order to heal. I can tell you from the other side of the coin because I am a multiple personality. My hope is that the mental health professionals will listen to me. Dr. Flora, whom I have been in therapy with for 12 months has developed a technique not utilized by other professionals working with multiple personalities. He does not believe in the use of abreactions. If great pain is present in an alter personality he takes the pain away and processes the experience separate from reliving the traumatic experience. There has been enough suffering. Why should one need to re-experience it? All past trauma has already been experienced in some part by one or more alters. It is only necessary to bring that experience into the core. By joining an alter into the core personality a veil of energy is removed and the knowledge is absorbed. It is not necessary to relive trauma by the core personality. By the use of this method of Dr. Flora's, I have been spared great suffering. It is my desire to proclaim this truth to all mental health professionals in an attempt to reduce the unnecessary suffering in integrating multiple personalities." (Note: Her final fusion of the 247th alter took place in 1998 and she has been dissociative-free ever since. You can read her testimony in CHAPTER FOURTEEN: TESTIMONIALS.)
Download or read book Not Fit for Human Consumption written by A. P. Filosa and published by New Leaf Distribution. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The specter of violence is a persuasive threat in the world affecting individuals, societies and nations. But if the underlying causes of this strife are understood, it can be prevented, treated and eradicated. In "Not Fit for Human Consuption: Triggered Traumatic Memories and the Violence Profile", author Dr. A.P. Filosa, Psy.D., investigates and explains the symptoms of this affliction, offering hope to those wishing to live a normal, healthy, violence-free life.
Download or read book Healing the Unimaginable written by Alison Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control is a practical, task-oriented, instructional manual designed to help therapists provide effective treatment for survivors of these most extreme forms of child abuse and mental manipulation.
Download or read book Comprehensive Handbook of Psychopathology written by Henry E. Adams and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 1281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Comprehensive Handbook of Psychopathology was published in 1984, al most a decade ago. In the interim there has been an explosion of information in psychopathology. Proliferation of knowledge has included a widening base of research data and changing or new concepts and theories regarding classification, measurement methods, and etiology of abnormal behaviors and mental disorders. It has been an active and productive period for biological and behavioral scientists and clinicians, particularly in terms of changing notions of the complex interaction of environmental and biological factors in many disorders. For example, with the classic disorders-such as anxiety and dissociative disorders-our understanding, while far from perfect, has been greatly enhanced in recent years. Whereas there was almost a vacuum of empirical knowledge ten years ago about the personality disorders, concentrated efforts have been undertaken to investigate classification, comorbidities, and expression of the personality disorders, and variants in normal personality traits. In addition, scientific advances in the fields of behavioral medicine, health psychology, and neuropsychology have greatly contributed to our knowledge of psychopathology and the interplay of psychobiological factors. It is now commonly acknowledged that psychopathology is not limited to the traditional mental illness categories; it also plays a significant role in many physical illnesses, such as cancer and AIDS. With these developments, it became clear that the first edition of this handbook was outdated and that a revision was needed.
Download or read book Abreaction to education and training written by Henry Harper Hart and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders written by American Psychiatric Association. Task Force on Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Classics in Group Psychotherapy written by K. Roy MacKenzie and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1992-02-14 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of articles reprinted from various sources from 1905-1981.
Download or read book Psychological Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Legislative History of the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act and Its Amendments written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder written by Sarah Y. Krakauer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the triumph of inner authority over the debilitating effects of trauma and abuse. In a simple and straightforward style, a three-phase model for treating dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder) in introduced. The Collective Heart model is consistent with the current standards of care which emphasize caution and restraint. Additionally, the Collective Heart model has several unique features: It highlights the retrieval of personal authority rather than the retrieval of traumatic memories, identifies the fundamental inner unity underlying the fragmented personality system, and introduces techniques that facilitate communication between personalities and between each personality's conscious mind and the collective heart. Six chapters of fascinating case vignettes illustrate therapeutic techniques and show how clients tap into their underlying inner unity to create the conditions for their own maturation, making it safe for their alters to grow, heal, and eventually join the host as a seamless, harmonious whole.
Download or read book The Treatment Of Psychiatric Disorders written by William H. Reid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third edition, revised for the DSM-IV, of the one volume, standard, comprehensive text on the treatment of psychiatric disorders - spanning the biological, psychological and psychosocial.; Updated and revised, this book is the result of several thousand studies, clinical reports, and reference works. Information is specifically coordinated with the DSM-IV, and the authors' discussion reflects what is currently known about standard treatments as well as many of the more esoteric therapies.
Download or read book Handbook of Prescriptive Treatments for Adults written by Robert T. Ammerman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book could not have been conceptualized or published 20 years ago. Indeed, it is doubtful that we could have organized the material for this handbook 10 years ago. Over the last 20 years, however, the painstaking efforts of many clinical researchers working with a variety of resistive psychopathologies have resulted in specific psychotherapies and pharmacotherapies that are effective with a significant propor tion of patients, at least for some of the disorders. Much clinical research remains to be carried out in the forthcoming decades. But now that we are nearing the 21st century, at least some statement about efficacy can be made. In 1967, Gordon Paul succinctly stated that the ultimate goal of treatment outcome research is to determine "What treatment, by whom, is most effective for this individual with that specific problem, and under which set of circumstances" (p. 111). At that time, empirical evaluations of psychosocial and pharmacologic treatments were few and far between. Methodological strategies for determining treatment effectiveness were also in the formative stage, as exemplified by introduc tion of control groups that received inactive interventions (i. e. , placebo) and the relatively recent practice of comparing two or more treatments in addition to placebo. In the almost three decades since Paul's oft-quoted dictum, both the quantity and the quality of treatment outcome research with adults have increased dramati cally.
Download or read book Emotions in Psychopathology written by William F. Flack and published by Affective Science. This book was released on 1998 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together current perspectives of eminent figures in the field, this volume examines the relationship between emotions and psychopathology in the context of major psychological disorders.
Download or read book Organizations in Depth written by Yiannis Gabriel and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-10-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive and systematic examination of the insights psychoanalysis can offer to the study of organizations and organizational behaviour. Richly illustrated with examples, Yiannis Gabriel's exhaustive study provides fresh understandings of the role of creativity, control mechanisms, leadership, culture, and emotions in organizations. Core theories are explained at length and there is a chapter on research strategies. Extensive reference is made to practical cases, and there is a review of the key debates.
