ABSTRACT
It was 1998 and I was a novice clinical psychologist working in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Several years earlier, I had read and discussed Childhood Antecedents of Multiple Personality edited by Richard Kluft (1985) with my supervisor, who had had training in the United States. The book revealed an unknown world to me, something that no one had ever told me before in college. The linkage between trauma and dissociation made complete sense to me, but I had no experience in the area. I had no formal training in the field of dissociation. At the time I met Dalma, I had no support for working with dissociation-there were no therapists trained in childhood dissociation in Buenos Aires. Thus, when I saw Dalma for the first time, I had a few-but far too few-ideas of what was happening with her. This is the story of how a novice clinician with no local support worked with her first dissociative identity disorder (DID) case in childhood.
