Professionals

The Free Plural Competence Self-Assessment Tool For Mental Health Professionals

1 Comment / 2025, Professionals, Selected for the clinical community, Uncategorized /

Welcome! Below you find our Plural Competence Self-Assessment Tool for Mental Health Professionals, a free and quick resource for mental health professionals like clinicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, social workers, researchers, students, as well as coaches and peer support workers, to self assess Plural competence. Click the image for more information Disclaimer:This self-assessment tool is designed […]

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Plurality for Professionals

Leave a Comment / 2025, allies, Professionals, Selected for the clinical community, The Plural Association, Uncategorized /

This page contains a collection of resources about Plurality for Professionals like clinicians, therapists, social workers, researchers, coaches, peer support workers and others who support people with dissociative identity disorder, other specified dissociative disorder and all other forms of Plurality and Multiplicity, including experiences like voice hearing, mania, spiritual, cultural and neurodivergent experiences. Click the

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How they took the Multiple out of Multiplicity – Understanding the history of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Terminology

Leave a Comment / 2023, Informative & educational, Professionals, Selected for the clinical community, Uncategorized /

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) has a long and complex history that has shaped our understanding of the condition and the terminology used to describe it. From early conceptions of “dissociation” and different “personality states,” to the use of terms such as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), Alternate Personalities or Alters, Parts, Identities, Personality States, and Self

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The difference between integration (final) fusion unification blending merging

What is the difference between integration, (final) fusion, unification, blending and merging?

8 Comments / 2021, Informative & educational, Integration, Professionals, Selected for the clinical community /

Author: Stronghold SystemProofreader and editor: The Eki System (Thank you Eki!) Today we wanted to share with you all some definitions of different terminology that our community often uses interchangeably.  A summary can be found at the end of the article. The definitions used in this article come from both the ISSTD treatment guidelines for

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Plurality vs Plural epxerience(s)

Plurality vs Plural experiences

Leave a Comment / 2021, faq, Informative & educational, Plurality, Professionals /

A short article on Plurality VS Plural experience: Many (singlet) people have a Plural experience(s.) Those experiences are just as valid as those with a permanent, solid and/or long-term experience of Plurality! If anything it’s a spectrum! Everyone on earth, (and probably outside of Earth,) is somewhere on the spectrum, and it isn’t stagnant. Singlets

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square with the text: 10 reasons why amnesia shouldn’t be a diagnostic criterion for DID in the DSM

10 reasons why amnesia shouldn’t be a diagnostic criterion for DID in the DSM

2 Comments / 2021, Informative & educational, Professionals /

In 1994, when MPD was erased and DID came in its place, the ”inability to recall important personal information that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness” criteria was added to the DSM-4. Later in 2013, this was changed to ”recurrent gaps in the recall of everyday events, important personal information and/or traumatic

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Diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder – Our life before & after.

1 Comment / 2019, dissociation, Informative & educational, OSDD, Professionals, Uncategorized /

We are the Stronghold system and we are diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder. This is one of the hardest articles that we’ve written. It’s personal, emotional, authentic and vulnerable. It’s our adult life story and how psychology broke it with a label they refuse to serve with evidence based treatment or specialized therapy. TW for

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Factitious disorder & MPD & DID – Why non disordered Plurals do not have factitious disorder

3 Comments / 2019, DID, Informative & educational, Plurality, Professionals, Selected for the clinical community, Uncategorized /

We are the Stronghold system and we are diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder. We also self ID as Plural. We are the founders of The Plural Association, a nonprofit that serves people with Dissociative Identity Disorder and all other forms of plurality, worldwide.Before we dive deep into factitious disorder, let’s first have a look at

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FAQ resource about Plurality

1 Comment / 2019, endogenic, faq, Informative & educational, Plurality, Professionals, Resources, Selected for the clinical community, tulpamancy, Uncategorized /

We are the Stronghold System and we live with dissociative identity disorder. We also self identify as Plural because we are People, not parts. Together with an amazing team, we run The Plural Association nonprofit, this website, a youtube channel about Plurality, we host virtual events, and our online community for Plurals. Here we invite

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Functional Multiplicity vs Integration: 12.8% times two – Our strong response to the six-year follow-up TOP DD study.

3 Comments / 2019, dissociation, Integration, Professionals, research, Selected for the clinical community, Uncategorized /

The Stronghold System from Power to the Plurals responds to the ‘’six-year follow-up of the treatment of patients with dissociative disorders study’’ Want to learn more about the difference between integration, (final) fusion, unification, blending and merging? Click here. Here is another article on integration of the personality. After our episode on the SystemSpeak podcast,

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