Book Review: Dissociative Disorder: The Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Case Study and Contemporary Perspective

Abstract

Reviews the book, The Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Case Study and Contemporary Perspective by Ronald A. Moline (see record 2012-29681-000). This book provides interested therapists sufficient information about the diagnosis and treatment of patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Rather than being an objective work on diagnosing and treating DID, the book focuses on an individual patient treated by the author. The first half of the book outlines the therapy with this patient. The second half deals with his thoughts about the process of that therapy. The author discusses various therapies, including eye movement desensitization and processing, hypnosis, and psychoanalytical perspectives with patients with DID. He ends with a good chapter on recent research findings in the neurobiology of DID. While not a book offering the latest guidelines for diagnosis and treatment, the author nonetheless brings up a review of many of the issues that will be enjoyable to those interested in dissociative disorders, especially DID. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)