(Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociation, 1990-06) Hutzell, R. R.; Jerkins, Mary Eggert
Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) typically demands cooperation from the various personalities. Logotherapy offers a framework and technique (Values Awareness Technique-VAT) to help accomplish this sometimes difficult task of fostering cooperation. The VAT helps personalities clarify underlying values they find personally meaningful. The personalities' underlying values may show more similarities than are seen in their overt behaviors, thus showing common grounds from which the therapist can initiate discussions about reasons for cooperation. This paper outlines the VAT and offers two case studies, each with two personalities, to demonstrate use of the VAT in fostering cooperation among personalities in the successful treatment of MPD.
