“If I work with a patient, one of my former patients had a dissociative identity disorder, multiple personality disorder, and a disorganized attachment history, and she ended up curing it. I mean, she got over it through therapy and became a therapist, so she might even be in this seminar, in this summit, and she wrote a beautiful book called “A Brilliant Adaptation” by Sally Maslansky. It’ll be out in January, 2026. But you’ll see there where this ability to have objectivity, even about her memories of trauma, helped her have this narrative integration, not just memory integration, which is where you take the piece of memory and move then from just implicit, alone where they flood you with flashbacks to explicit, that’s memory integration, but the narrative integration is making sense of it. And then in her case with dissociative identity disorder, she had to really work on something that in, this is among the nine, called state integration and realize that these bodies we’re in could get into these different states which are verb-like clusters of neural firing patterns. And she could understand how these different states helped her survive horrible abuse. So in the book what you see is the way she went from being this fragmented individual to a coherently integrated individual, which she it to this day.”
