Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity by Valerie Sinason

Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity by Valerie Sinason

Valerie Sinason's Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse addressed a subject that many professionals working in the field had been uncomfortable discussing. Her work in disability and abuse has consistently broken new ground in addressing subjects that many people have found initially hard to deal with. This new book covers the equally unexplored subject of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), and is the first major British book available for both clinicians and the intelligent lay public on this subject. Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity explains the phenomenon of DID, the conflicting models of the human mind that have been found to try and understand it, the political conflict over the subject, and, with the permission of patients, clinical accounts. Valerie Sinason, along with an impressive array of contributors, covers: the background history and a description of the condition issues of diagnoses treatment issues the stages of dissociation that lead to full-blown DID the legal and management problems. Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity will be indispensable to professionals in the UK increasingly concerned about their lack of training in this subject and the fear it evokes in them and their teams.

This is a book which is both intellectually and emotionally challening, but one which practitioners in the therapy field disregard at their peril for not only does it present new and controversial ideas, but there is important discussion on the pitfalls and dangers to both sufferers of DID and to their therapists- Lynn Barnett,Psychodynamic Practice, 2004

Valerie Sinason is a psychoanalyst and Consultant Research Psychotherapist at the Psychiatry of Disability Department at St George's Hospital Medical School, London. She is Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, Harley Street, London. She is the author of Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse, Routledge, 1994

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ISBN 13	9780415195560
ISBN 10	041519556X
Title	Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity
Author	Valerie Sinason
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2002-02-21
Number of pages	296
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