Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder: Second Edition

Editor : Valerie Sinason

Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder: Second Edition

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : January 2011
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 248
  • Category :
    Attachment Theory
  • Category 2 :
    Trauma and Violence
  • Catalogue No : 30136
  • ISBN 13 : 9780415491815
  • ISBN 10 : 0415491819
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This revised edition investigates the still unaddressed and unexplored subject of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). With brand new chapters on police work and attachment theory it has been fully updated to include new research and the latest understanding of patterns of attachment theory that lead to dissociation. With contributions from psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and service users this book covers the background history and a description of the condition along with the issues of diagnoses and treatment.

It also looks at: the phenomenon of DID; the conflicting models of the human mind that have been found to try and understand DID; the political conflict over the subject including problems for the police; clinical accounts and personal writing of people with DID. Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Second Edition will prove essential reading for therapists and mental health workers as well as being a valuable resource for graduates and researchers.

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Contents
Part I: Mapping the Territory: Childhood Aetiology, Abuse, Attachment Theory Research, Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder. Sinason, Introduction. Fonagy, Multiple Voices versus Meta-cognition: an Attachment Theory Perspective. Steele, Multiplicity Revealed in the Adult Attachment Interview: When Integration and Coherence Means Death. Bentovim, Undoing the Effects of Complex Trauma - Creating a Lifespan Trauma Narrative with Children and Young People. Swartz, Dissociation and Spirit Possession in Non-Western Countries: Notes Towards a Common Research Agenda.
Part II: Attachment Focus: Mainly Theory. Sachs, As Thick as Thieves, or: the Ritual Abuse Family - an Attachment Perspective on a Forensic Relationship. Southgate, A Theoretical Framework for understanding Multiplicity and Dissociation. Zulueta, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Dissociation: The Traumatic Stress Service In The Maudsley Hospital. Mollon, Dark Dimensions of Multiple Personality.
Part III: Attachment Focus - Mainly Practice. Sinason, The Shoemaker and the Elves. Goodwin, Snow White and the Seven Diagnoses. Richardson, Will You Sit By Her Side? An Attachment-based Approach to Work with Dissociative Conditions. Whewell, Profound Desolation: the Working Alliance with Dissociative Patients in an NHS Setting.
Part IV: Other frames of reference: Linguistic, Diagnostic, Forensic and Historic Issues. Galton, Dissociation Sounds More Scientific. Coleman, Dissociative Disorders: Recognition within Psychiatry and RAINS. Sinason, Interview with Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll. Kahr, Multiple Personality Disorder and Schizophrenia: an Interview with Professor Flora Rheta Schreiber. Information for People With DID and Professionals Working With Them. Index.

About the Editor(s)

Valerie Sinason is a poet, writer, child psychotherapist and adult psychoanalyst. She is Founder Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies and President of the Institute for Psychotherapy. She is an Honorary Consultant Psychotherapist at the University of Cape Town Child Guidance Clinic and Chair of Trustees of the First People Centre, New Bethesda, South Africa. She is a Patron of Dorset Action on Abuse (DAA), editor of Trauma Dissociation and Multiplicity and co-editor of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy after Child abuse. She has published numerous articles and books, including two poetry collections. Valerie Sinason was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the ISSTD (International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation) in April 2016.

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