Further Reading 📚
About Multiplicity
Sarah K Reece, via Dissociative Initiative
A genuinely interesting take on multiplicity, plurality, and DID.
I would usually include the best parts here, but this whole thing is actually so well written and interesting that I really do encourage people to give the full thing a read. Not only that, but her way of writing made me feel really calm. Definitely a positive bonus.
I guess... I'll pick these quotes. But trust me, it's worth it to read it.
Multiplicity may be a temporary situation but for some it is enduring – this can be a good or bad thing. It can be confusing to become aware of the many different ways people can understand experiences of multiplicity, but it can also help to broaden our understanding and connect with others with a diversity of meanings and experiences.
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We tend to think of multiplicity as being a category of its own, something you either have, or don’t have, but dissociation occurs in degrees of severity in any area, including identity. Even within the clinical framework, a wide range of experiences can be found on this spectrum!
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Like all forms of dissociation, these are not necessarily pathological. In fact some therapeutic interventions, such as the mindfulness approach of developing the ‘observing self’ may be conceived of as a form of mild functional multiplicity that supports and enhances people’s ability to gain useful perspective on themselves and their situation.