iamshadow21
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RSBMI don't think they were replaced by "modern talk therapists" as I know many psychiatrists from that era (and still know them) who are still active in the field - and they now have a more biologically oriented paradigm. Freud didn't rule out biology and Paul Ricoeur argued that Freud was heading toward a theory of brain defects/zones of the brain affected.
Modern psychiatrists understand that "talk therapies" (including ego psychology/psychoanalysis) are important, but that ruling out brain dysfunction is more important. That includes both anatomy and physiology of the brain (both affected by both environment and genes). It's the toughest problem in the known scientific universe, IMO.
All I meant was - if traditional analysts are still working with patients with DID (which I'm sure they are!) they aren't writing books about it for the popular market. At least, not in the last two or three decades. I was talking representation in print, not bods in the field, doing the work. If I find a recent title, I'll be sure to correct myself. I haven't seen one, but there are plenty of books out there that I haven't read. A lot of older titles were published small or vanity print, they're very hard to get hold of. The more recent void is things published for a short while on Createspace that aren't available any more. Because they were print on demand, something has to come up in the second hand market or it's just impossible to get hold of.
EDIT: Probably the closest thing I can think of is Annie G. Rogers' A Shining Affliction, which is about psychotherapy, not psychoanalysis specifically. Great book, though, if you ever come across it.
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