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Fraser's “Dissociative Table Technique” Revisited, Revised: A Strategy for Working with Ego States in Dissociative Disorders and Ego-State Therapy

Fraser, George A.·2003·Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
DOI 10.1300/j229v04n04_02
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The challenge in the management of a number of the dissociative disorders–which is not present in any other psychiatric or physical disorder–is the need to manage a person who has a dissociative plurality of self identities. Each self identity or ego state believes in its own separate existence, and that it can relate to the outside world without any need of the other co-existing ego states. The primary treatment of dissociative disorders is psychotherapy (and psychopharmacology when Axis I comorbid disorders cause functional impairment), much like the psychotherapy of other disorders. However, in treating dissociative disorders, it is often necessary for the therapist to interact with the various ego states. To ignore the clients' subjective reality of such ego states often leads to therapeutic failure, a fruitless focus solely on the comorbid conditions, termination of therapy, or a flight to another therapist. Effective therapy most often results from the recognition and acceptance of the subjective reality of the client's separate ego states and the ability of the therapist to lead the client towards a dissolution of the amnestic barriers and disharmony of these ego states. For many clients, however, the switching of ego states is chaotic and uncontrolled. The Dissociative Table Technique offers a technique to allow clients to recognize internal ego states, and to structure and control switching and internal communication. It is an adjunctive strategy to the psychotherapy and has proven successful in establishing internal cooperation and integration of the various ego states. Drawing on principles from hypnosis, gestalt therapy and clinical experience, the strategies of the Dissociative Table Technique allow the therapist to teach the dissociated person to facilitate interaction of ego states, and to integrate and eventually join or fuse the dissociated ego states into a consistent sense of self brought about by the cooperation and coawareness of all ego states who learn to function as a unit. This is an expanded and updated version of the original publication of this technique (Fraser, 1991).

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Authors
Fraser, G. A.
Corresponding author
Fraser, George A.
Venue
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2003-09
Volume
4
Issue
4
Pages
5-28
ISSN
  • 1529-9732 (ISSN-L)
  • 1529-9740
DOI
10.1300/j229v04n04_02
OpenAlex
W311669065
Cited by
54
References
22
Citations by year
2025: 22 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 2
FWCI
0.82
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
Keywords
ego states, dissociative disorders, ego state therapy, hypnosis, Gestalt therapy, self-identity, amnesia

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