“Parts Psychology: A Trauma-Based, Self-State Therapy with Case Studies in Normal Dissociation” by Jay Noricks PhD

In recent posts of my blog about the normal "multiple-personality trait” of many novelists—https://multiplewriters.blogspot.com/—I highlighted a recurrent issue: “parts." I then decided to search for books that addressed “parts” and “psychology,” and found Parts Psychology (1) whose subtitle describes it as “A Trauma-Based Self-State Therapy with “Case Studies in Normal Dissociation” (1). I also found No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz, PhD, subtitled “Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with The Internal Family Systems Model" (2).

Psychologists have found their own approach to issues raised in the chapter on Dissociative Disorders in the psychiatric diagnostic manual [DSM-5] (3). But there may be similarities in the psychiatric treatment (4).

1. Jay Noricks PhD. Parts Psychology. Los Angeles. New University Press, 2011.

2. Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, No Bad Parts. Boulder Colorado, Sounds True, 2021.

3. American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition [DSM-5]. Arlington VA, American Psychiatric Association, 2013, pp. 291-307. 

4. Frank W. Putnam, MD. Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder. New York, The Guilford Press, 1989.