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The Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS): An Ego State Therapy for Healing Adults with Childhood Trauma and Attachment Wounds

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During the 78 years of my life I have devoted 52 years to the practice of psychotherapy. Down through these years I've had the wonderful personal experience of knowing and being trained by Carl Rogers, Eric Berne, Fritz Pearls, John and Helen Watkins, Mary and Bob Goulding, and Milton Erickson, to name a few. I'm highly impressed with the way this book incorporates the evolution of ego state theory and trance work into the practice of psychotherapy in such a simplistic way that the average layperson can understand and benefit from this treatment approach. I'm simply overwhelmed by Schmidt's skill in integrating these theories of giants into an outstanding treatment program.

Also available from the DNMS INSTITUTE (additional cost) are seven CD slide show modules for home study by therapists wanting to learn more about the DNMS treatment approach for treating childhood trauma wounding. These CDs are excellent training tools for learning more about ego state psychotherapy and are essential for neophytes as well as experienced therapists wanting to learn more about treating complex maladaptive introjects. Schmidt and other DNMS trained therapist's dedication to providing on-line (email) clinical support for CD owners are to be commended for their efforts.
Gerald W. Huff, Ph.D., Private Practice.

This book is a concise, clear manual for therapists who are wanting to provide good, solid, cognitive changes for clients. This book clearly shows therapists how to use this method in a user friendly, easy to follow manner and includes handouts for the therapist to use in their work and to offer their clients. Shirley Jean Schmidt has created an amazing system of healing that incorportates Ego State Therapy, Alternating Bilateral Stimulation, principles from EMDR and Atttatchment Theory into one system that can heal anyone with unmet needs who wants to change, grow and become all they can be. As a psychotherapist I have seen wonderful and exciting growth in my clients through use of this system. I reccomend it to any therapist looking for a method to heal their clients from the inside out.
Debra J. Antari, MS, LPC

"I've been an enthusiastic practitioner of the DNMS since 2001 - because it gives me, simply and profoundly, the best treatment results I've ever achieved. This book describes, in clear and simple language, important ego state therapy innovations for healing trauma and attachment wounds. This book's reader-friendly style will make it easy for therapists to learn and apply this highly innovative model."

--JOAN BACON, MA, Psychologist, EMDRIA-Approved Instructor and Consultant,
Former Graduate Faculty Chestnut Hill College

I'm excited to have this book! The diagrams illustrating negative/abusive introjects are the perfect visual aid to help my dissociative clients "see" what happened to them in childhood & what their internal alter system (or for non-dissociative folks, their negative self-talk) "looks like." The book provides well-detailed instructions of the exercises clients and therapists can do to facilitate development--perhaps for the first time in the clients' lives--of a sense of worth/value. Thanks for this well-conceived work on traumatic attachment/dissociation/healing. Sandie Fox, LCSW, LADC

"Shirley Jean Schmidt's latest book is an astounding accomplishment - profound in its scope, clarity, innovation, and insight. The DNMS has been of enormous value to my work - providing a comprehensive, skillful, and compassionate method of treatment that effectively heals clients of their unresolved attachment wounds. It has truly revolutionized my clinical practice."

This book has helped me more than any book that I have read. I endured childhood trauma and did not have complete understanding for it under I gave birth to my son. This stressful event triggered this trauma. I was having OCD/instrusive thoughts, overwhelming fears of being a mom, anxiety/depression. This book saved me. Thank you!

I heard of this program and read this book because I thought it might provide some innovative information on working with dissociation and trauma. However, all I found was the usual ideas of resource installation and internal self talk and parts therapy.

The language is overly simplistic and seems to be directed at clients who might have trouble understanding psychological language or toward clinicians not used to doing much professional reading. Much of it is supplemented with rudimentary cartoons that also appear very simplistic. All in all, I wouldn't reccomend this book or the author's other products. There are so many better books on trauma available, not to mention the wealth of information for free, online.

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Dissociative Identity Disorder: Diagnosis, Clinical Features, and Treatment of Multiple Personality (Wiley Series in General and Clinical Psychiatry)

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