ABSTRACT
Working with clients with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is likely to be more stressful for the practitioner, than working with clients who see themselves as individuals because the former are multiple. The therapist is not working with one but many identities and this factor on its own makes therapy harder to manage. In addition, the client poses a high risk to herself in respect to cutting, self harming, and attempting suicide. Hence, practitioners who do not like working with clients who harm themselves will need to give this client group a wide berth. Psychotherapists choosing to work with these clients may find managing the clients’ risk to themselves difficult. Many clients with DID may still be being abused when they embark on therapy, or the abuse may have stopped but there is still contact or the threat of contact with an abuser in the client’s life.
