Product Description

Covers the 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #180180 in Books
• Published on: 2002-02-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 296 pages

From the Back Cover
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.

About the Author
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

Customer Reviews

Satisfying
I'm a psychiatrist working with traumatised adolescents. I don't know a lot about dissociative identity disorder but I found this book to be an excellent introduction. It includes chapters by a range of authors with a range of views on DID, so the overall effect is very balanced and non-dogmatic. The contributors are all eminent in the field of trauma in the UK, and the book represents a UK rather than a USA perspective.