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PubMed1990

Toward becoming one self.

I communicated often with the patient's psychologist during her last hospitalization. As the patient moves slowly toward integration, she and I remain in contact through correspondence and occasional lunch meetings. This friendly relationship provides a much-needed ongoing support system for the patient, which is provided by one who is familiar with her diagnostic picture. This paper has described early occupational therapy interventions with a patient whose condition has been newly diagnosed as multiple personality disorder. Skinner (1987) suggested that additional occupational therapy interventions be implemented as the patient improves.

Adult↗

PubMed1981

The emotion identification group.

Emotion identification is an individual's ability to be aware of affective responses that occur during varied daily interactions. Through a review of the literature, how patients often seem unclear about the relevance of "doing" therapy to "talking/feeling" therapy is documented, an then an attempt is made to show how the occupational therapy emotion identification group can reinforce the patients' real-life connection between doing, talking or feeling. The basic premises formulated for establishing a method to promote emotion identification, the group format that incorporates this method, and patient responses to the method are presented. How occupational therapy interfaces with Gestalt therapy and therapeutic community philosophies is shown and methods are described to apply the Gestalt process of one's getting in touch with and taking ownership for both needs and feelings in the emotion identification group and in occupational therapy task groups.

Alcoholism↗