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Can dissociative disorders be cured?

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Dr. Pamela Pappas answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

With dissociation,: I think healing is a more accurate term. Mental processes are like a dance, and we're always balancing something. With treatment of dissociative disorders, one may become more resilient to the things which previously triggered dissociation, so that this is no longer the automatic coping response. One has more gears, in a way. Dissociation leaves you without choice -- treatment provides these.

Answered 8/13/2014

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Resolved: Two goals: integration or peaceful detante both are laudable, but complex and takes everything in the psychiatrists psychotherapeutic armamentarium to achieve. The first thing to be done is the establishment of a trusting relationship, and figuring out ways to stop the abuse that is almost always ongoing in the present. When dissociation dies down, therapy must address life in the absence of it.

Answered 9/16/2013

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