Most multiples stem from some for of trauma. It is rare to have multiples w/o trauma.
You may want to read this if you think that's always the case: Layman's Guide (http://www.kitsune.cx/blackbirds/layman/)
Trauma-based systems (or systems which have experienced trauma) have received the most attention in psychiatric literature because smoothly-functioning systems generally had no need to see therapists-- it was a classic skewed sampling. It was like how in the 1950s therapists assumed homosexuality was always an illness because all the homosexuals who came to them seeking help were experiencing some form of emotional distress, so they assumed that distress was intrinsically connected to the experience of being gay.
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Date: 2004-04-01 10:46 pm (UTC)You may want to read this if you think that's always the case: Layman's Guide (http://www.kitsune.cx/blackbirds/layman/)
Trauma-based systems (or systems which have experienced trauma) have received the most attention in psychiatric literature because smoothly-functioning systems generally had no need to see therapists-- it was a classic skewed sampling. It was like how in the 1950s therapists assumed homosexuality was always an illness because all the homosexuals who came to them seeking help were experiencing some form of emotional distress, so they assumed that distress was intrinsically connected to the experience of being gay.