Understanding Dissociative Disorders

by Marlene E Hunter

Understanding Dissociative Disorders is for all Health Professionals looking for ways to understand the idiosyncrasies of dissociative patients - their problematic ways of responding to medication, strange laboratory results and multitude of physical and emotional symptoms. This book offers realistic, practical answers to questions you didn't even think to ask. Carefully organized for easy reference, it discusses what you can do and what you can't, where and how to ask for help, and what to say to your patient. More importantly, it explains what leads patients to solutions that seem utterly unrealistic.

Marlene E. Hunter, MD is a family physician who began to work with highly dissociative patients in 1977. She is a Certificant and Fellow of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and a past Associate Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Family Medicine. She is a past president of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, the Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis (B.C. Division) and the B.C. College of Family Physicians.