ABSTRACT
By the middle phase of therapy clients will have a good level of understanding of their multiplicity. They will know that they have identities and their approximate ages, and have a limited amount of information about the events that gave rise to their creation, although this will not have been gone through in any detail. Clients with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) will normally have done everything they can to suppress the alters. Hence, one of the therapist’s aims in the treatment of DID, is to assist the client to recover dissociated memories or memory fragments held within each of the alters. Clients with DID are continuously propelled backwards into their past lives, as dissociated fragments of memories are repeatedly re-stimulated by events. Dissociated memories are made up of four components or levels of experience: Behaviour, Affect, Sensation, and Knowledge.
