- Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS)
Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS) is a recent form of adult psychotherapy developed by Shirley Jean Schmidt [Schmidt, S. J. (2004). "The Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy: An ego state therapy for healing childhood wounds". San Antonio: DNMS Institute.] . It has been used in treating
dissociative identity disorder [Schmidt, S. J. "Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy: A New Treatment Approach Applied to Dissociative Identity Disorder". "Journal of Trauma & Dissociation".Haworth Press , 2004] (DID). It is anego-state therapy based on the knowledge of how the brain develops in childhood.DNMS is based on the assumption that present-day issues that originated in unmet childhood needs are perpetuated by maladaptive introjects (see,
Introjection ). DNMS is a semi-hypnotic therapy that uses alternating bilateral stimulation to process these maladaptive introjects, build internal resource connections, and strengthen positive experiences.ee also
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Ego-state therapy
*Dissociative identity disorder Notes
External links
* [http://www.dnmsinstitute.com/ DNMS Institute]
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