(Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociation, 1989-09) Steele, Katherine H.
A conceptual model for abreactive work with multople personality and other dissociative disorders is presented. The context and process of abreaction are described. the model includes the following components: Providing safety and protection (preparation); eliciting dissociated aspects of the trauma (identification); alleviating the fixation point in existential crisis of the trauma (resolution); creating a gestalt with the dissociated aspects within reconstructed cognitive schema (assimilation); empowering the patient through the return of an internal locus of control, restoration of contiguous consciousness and memory, and assimilation of identity (application).
