MULTIPLICITY - THE CHALLENGE OF FINDING PLACE IN EXPERIENCE

Authors
Citation
Rd. Rossel, MULTIPLICITY - THE CHALLENGE OF FINDING PLACE IN EXPERIENCE, Journal of constructivist psychology, 11(3), 1998, pp. 221-240
Citations number
44
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Developmental
ISSN journal
10720537
Volume
11
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
221 - 240
Database
ISI
SICI code
1072-0537(1998)11:3<221:M-TCOF>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
Many contemporary commentators on therapy have discussed the increased incidence of multiple personality disorder and dissociative identity disorder over the past 2 decades. Others have speculated on the relati onship between this observed phenomenon in psychotherapy and changes t aking place in contemporary society. This article develops the assumpt ion that these changes are real and reflect important shifts in the ex perience of self in contemporary society. Ambiguity and the absence of a moral center seems more and more a normal expression of conditions that are increasingly a part of contemporary life. The article conside rs the requirements of constructing a new therapeutic language capable of dealing with them. The article presents a ''taxonomy of multiplici ty'' as a way of conceptualizing various experiential dimensions of di ssociation and multiplicity.