Fraser's "Dissociative Table Technique" revisited, revised: A strategy for working with ego states in dissociative disorders and ego-state therapy

Journal of Trauma and Dissociation

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 5-28

  Fraser, George A ^a  

^a Ottawa Anxiety and Trauma Clinic   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dissociative disorders; Dissociative identity disorder; Ego states; Ego state therapy; Fusion; Integration

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EGO; GESTALT THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; IDENTITY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0346656896     PISSN: 15299732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J229v04n04_02     Document Type: Article

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