ABSTRACT
Integration occurs at the end of a long process in therapy. Rick Kluft and and C. G. Fine state that prior to integration alters need to have expressed their trauma. The Behaviours, Affect, Sensations, and Knowledge around the trauma experiences need to have been voiced, discharged of emotion, fully processed, and the histories shared with one another, before integration can be considered. Co-presence is where alters share the spotlight, which can mean the sharing of talents and abilities with one another prior to complete integration and thus can be a useful stepping stone to this end. Kluft and Fine recommend hypnosis to be used in order to ascertain whether alters have faded, or are simply shadows of their former selves but may re-emerge. They also outline further fusion rituals involving death and rebirth, for example, which may encourage final integration and mark the passing of multiplicity.
