Full Description
Dissociative Identities draws on expertise from practitioners and survivors to explore therapeutic approaches to dissociation resulting from complex trauma. The contributors provide a vivid insight into what it is like for therapist and survivor to be alongside one another in the therapy room. They highlight the challenges of work with the fragmented internal worlds of those who have survived attachment trauma and explore together what approaches can promote healing and repair.
Dissociative identity is reframed from being a disorder to an essential survival skill, and the book includes an open recognition from the perspective of both therapist and survivor of relational challenges, pitfalls, and their impact on the healing process.
Dissociative Identities will be invaluable for all professionals working with survivors of complex trauma, including psychotherapists, nurses, social workers, clinical psychologists, and counsellors. It will also be of interest to survivors and their networks.
Contents
1. Using an Attachment-Based Model to Understand and Work with People with Dissociative Identity 2. Exploration of the Relational Dialogue Between Client and Therapist 3. What Are We Doing? Stabilisation Work with a Mind Control System of Altered Identities 4. On Being With: Working Creatively with Clients with Dissociative Identity 5. When the Alleged Abuser Is Famous: Some of the Problems in Dealing with Alleged VIP Abuse 6. The Parts, the Whole and the Real Person: An Attachment Perspective 7. The Perspective of an Expert by Experience: Learning to Thrive - So Many Cogs in the Wheel 8. The Perspective of an Expert by Experience: Clinical Theory and Practice
