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Psychotherapy is essential to uniting the personalities and preventing the personality from splitting again. Treatment is usually intensive and prolonged, with success linked to the strength of the patient-therapist relationship with each of the personalities, all of which require equal respect and concern.
Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
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