great information.

NY is on American Psychiatric Association standards for treating and diagnosing DID not the American Psychological Association.

Example of differences...

psychological association is more concerned with state side where as psychiatric association is world wide.

psychological association does not publish the diagnostic manuals, they participate in the science side of things. where as the psychiatric association is who published the diagnostic manual of what is disorders, definitions and testing and so on.

its one of those weird things where two agencies are using the same initials but are two vastly different things.

When I said in my post that Clairity wont find treatment providers in NY treating DID by outdated standards of a personality disorder I meant this that is found on the APA (p meaning Psychiatry not Psychology) standards that DID is a dissociative disorder where someone has less than one personality not multiple personalities.

in other words here in NY treatment providers treat people with DID as ....one .... person. they are a human being with normal and dissociative type parts. what defines those parts as normal or dissociative type is the dissociation symptoms.

This definition of DID has been in place since 2013 but not made public for many years by the APA (P as in psychiatry not psychology.) thats what clairtytoo will find when looking for treatment providers here in NY.

he wont find therapists wanting him to be alternate personalities, or act out as alternate personalities, he will find therapists that treat dissociation symptoms and problems because by APA (psychiatry not psychology) standards DID is a dissociative disorder not a multiple personality disorder.

the reason I mention that and am explaining my post more clearly is because clarity and others many be looking for a therapist who treat them for multiple personalities when NY is now on a new standard.

you cant find therapists here in NY who treat in terms of Multiple personalities very often, a majority now treat this disorder differently (by symptoms and problems instead of disorder)

same disorder just different treatment approach now since the disorder is now labeled and defined as a dissociative disorder.

thanks again though for your links I found them interesting and remember seeing them before.