Posted by fallsfall on March 24, 2004, at 8:04:30
In reply to Re: Ego states » gardenergirl, posted by EmmyS on March 24, 2004, at 7:39:19
As far as I can tell, I have only one ego state. I don't really understand the "inner child" stuff. I know that I have a lot of Child-like (childish?) wishes. Most of my comforts are child related (swings, crayons, ice cream).
My therapist used to be the Psychology Director in a hospital. He told me that many people would come in claiming to have DID. He doesn't believe in DID. He said that they just needed to pull together their different viewpoints into a single viewpoint. Gee, that sounds a lot like DID integration to me.
I know 2 people very well who have DID, so I have experienced it myself.
I told my therapist that we would have to agree to disagree on this. And that I would, from time to time, need to talk about my close friend who has DID (and I implied that I didn't want him to "correct" my viewpoint). This has worked for us so far.
P.S. Daisy, my therapist is Psychodynamic, too, but does NOT believe in DID. You implied that you thought that Psychodynamic implied belief in DID. I'm interested in why you think that.
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