Skip to content

Blog

Our lively editorial platform, serving you with enriching and engaging reads from world leading therapists, psychologists and other key voices several times a week.

Filter by
Sort by

Showing posts tagged with 'Dissociative identity disorder (DID)'.

Show all posts

Advanced Integrative Therapy for Dissociative Identity Disorder 4/5: A Baby Part

  • 7th Jan 2022
  • Gill Frost

As we get to know our client’s internal families, we may uncover different relationships and encounter very early parts. In the penultimate blog in her series on energy therapy for dissociative identity disorder, Gill Frost, author of The Girls Within, shares how she worked to heal a distressed baby part – by enlisting the help of another alter whose internal role was to take care of this very traumatised infant.

Advanced Integrative Therapy for Dissociative Identity Disorder 2/5: Working with the Body

  • 10th Dec 2021
  • Gill Frost

A gentle but powerful energy therapy for working with the effects of trauma, Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) helped Gill Frost to transform the life of her first client with dissociative identity disorder (DID). In the second part of her blog series, the author of The Girls Within outlines the basic principles of this initially ‘strange sounding’ therapy, including the role of treatment phrases and muscle testing in targeting deeply embodied trauma.

Advanced Integrative Therapy for Dissociative Identity Disorder 1/5: Understanding DID

  • 3rd Dec 2021
  • Gill Frost

There may be more people in the UK with dissociative identity disorder than with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Yet core therapy trainings rarely cover DID, which is often misdiagnosed and frequently misunderstood. In the first part of a new blog series aimed at developing awareness, therapist and author Gill Frost introduces DID as a natural defence mechanism in response to extreme childhood trauma and abuse – and shares her reaction when an adult client’s young ‘alter’ first came out of hiding.