Elysium, right before I read your response here I was reading this on another website:

The authors propose a phase-specific understanding of the treatment of trauma survivors that respects the splits in the personality caused by traumatic events. An "apparently normal part of the personality" holds narrative memory and attempts to go on with daily life, using the ego functions of planning, exploring, and reasoning. At the same time, at least one and often several "emotional parts of the personality" remain stuck in an action pattern that was initiated at the time of trauma and was principally defensive in nature. The goal of treatment is a resolution of these structural splits in the personality and a more whole and flexibly functioning individual.

Rather apt, don't you think?!