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Over the past three decades there has been a resurgence of study of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder. Studies show that DID is linked to intense childhood trauma (incest, abuse). It is considered the most severe of dissociative disorders. Recently, clinical research has begun to track the treatment and progress of patients with DID. More studies are being done on the types of treatments and follow-ups. The most common type of treatment is psychotherapy. Another treatment is the phenomenological treatments. Both treatments are very different but are similar in the goal of integrating (unity) or resolution (collaboration of alters) of the alters of the patients, so they can function as a single person. It has been shown that patients who achieve integration show more improvement than non-integrated patients. DID is considered to be “chronic, polysymptomatic, and pleiomorphic posttraumatic dissociative psychopathology characterized by the presence of multiple identities (personality states or alters) and amnesia…”(Kluft, R.P. 1999, p.290). Richard P. Kluft, MD uses this definition as the requirements for using a stage-oriented treatment of trauma spelled out by Jan