Sunday, April 11, 2010 ~
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
(Coffee & Conversation 11:00 ~ 11:30
a.m.)
Providence Hospital, Fisher
Auditorium, 16001 West Nine Mile Rd., Southfield Michigan
Multiple Subjectivities:
A Relational Approach to Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
Paper
presentation by Maria Slowiaczek, Ph.D.
ABSTRACT:
In
treating a patient with DID, the analyst enters into a world of
multiplicity where each alter wants to be approached with an
openness to their differing developmental needs and distinct
subjectivities. The analyst’s attunement to these multiple
subjectivities helps to process traumatic experiences and to
develop new capacities for relatedness and self-awareness.
Within the context of the analytic relationship, the alter
personalities begin to engage in relationships with each other,
moving from a position of isolation to cooperative, internal
communication. In the case described in this paper, a
traumatized child alter who cannot speak learns to use her hand
as a puppet to communicate. She begins to process her traumatic
experiences, to grow into new ways of relating and to
communicate with other alters.
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS:
Maria L. Slowiaczek, Ph.D.
is in private practice in Ann Arbor where she works with adults
and couples. She did her analytic training at The National
Training Program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis in New York.
She has taught and supervised graduate students at the
University of Michigan for 14 years. She is active in the
International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology
where she is on the Council, the Advisory Board and also Chair
of the Welcoming Committee.
