According to James C. Coleman in his book, Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life, the treatment of person with DID by hypnosis and narcosis interview.
Also the key of importance in treatment is helping the patient to learn more effective method of survive, which make the anxious behavior unnecessary Coleman 248.
Treatment of Dissosiative Identity Disorder DID is the effort to reconnect the identities of disparate alters into a single functioning identity. The treatment may
focus on symptoms, to ease the distressing aspects of the condition and ensure the safety of the individual. Treatment methods include psychotherapy and medications.
Some behavior therapists firstly use behavioral treatments such as responding to a single identity and using traditional therapy http:skepdic.commpd.html
3. Personality
Everyone has his own personality and every personality is different from another. None has same personality, even, identical twin. One may be phlegmatic,
the others may be shy and another may be cheerful and easygoing. This topic of difference is the fundamental topic to the study of personality.
a. Definition
Personality is not easily defined. Basically, ‘personality’ refers to our effort to capture an individual’s ‘essence’. Personality is person-ality that means the science
of describing and understanding persons. The word ‘personality’ derives from the Latin word ‘persona’ meaning ‘mask’. So, the study of personality can be understood
as the study of ‘masks’ people wear Wilderdom.
Hjelle and
Ziegler in their book Personalities Theories say that the basic study of personality is to contribute extensively to our understanding of human being
from within the structure of the science psychology. Actually, there is no one best way to understand human behavior in psychology. In fact, individual in this field
struggle to develop different systems of consistent gathering of concept, and it called the theory of personality Hjelle and Ziegler 1-2.
b. Sigmund Freud’s Personality Theory
Relating to the topic above, Sigmund Freud personality’s theory is reviewed in this section. It is based on consideration that the topic has the closest relation to
Freud’s theory Hjelle and Ziegler 32. Freud proposes a topographical model of personality organization. According to this model, psychic life can be represented by
three level of consciousness. They are: 1. The conscious level
It includes all the feelings of our senses we can feel and experiences that we are conscious. Freud states that only a small part of mental life thought, perceptions,
feeling, and memories contains in the area of consciousness. Conscious represents only a small and limited aspect of personality.
2. The preconscious domain The preconscious domain is often called “available memory.” It includes all
memory that we are not conscious, but it can be transmitted to the conscious area both spontaneously and with a minimum effort. This memory might include all that
somebody had done last week, and our past memory PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
3. The unconscious It is the deepest and main level of the human mind. Freud believes that the
important parts of human behavior are shaped and directed by desire and controled totally by the outside area of consciousness Hjelle and Ziegler 32-33.
c. Three Basic Structures of Personality
