Steinberg calls the four Cs of therapy: comfort, communication, cooperation, and connection. The last section, dedicated to treatment goals and techniques, is very useful, summarizing symptoms such as feeling numb, suicidality, depression, time loss, self-mutilation, out-of-body experience, amnesia, derealization, depersonalization, identity alteration, and identity confusion and then describing what Dr. The book is divided into four sections: Dissociation-What It Is and Is Not, Recognizing the Signs and Rating Your Symptoms, Inside Stories (three case studies), and Befriending the Stranger. Steinberg, the first researcher to receive National Institute of Mental Health grant support to conduct field research in dissociation, vividly and thoughtfully shares her professional expertise to inform the reader about this major mental illness. The symptoms are presented in separate chapters with vivid case examples.ĭr. This is an extraordinarily well-written compilation of descriptions of the disorder, in all its forms and degrees of severity, together with sections of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders-Revised for the five core symptoms. Targeted at the general public, The Stranger in the Mirror should be read by all psychiatry residents as well as all mental health professionals heretofore skeptical of the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder.
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