An accessible and sensitive guide to the key concepts involved when working with people who have experienced trauma and dissociation, this book covers all degrees of trauma: complex, childhood attachment ruptures, sexual abuse, torture, war, and even the coronavirus pandemic. Through this compassionate and intelligent work, Valerie Sinason shows us what is needed to understand some of the worst possible experiences without a loss of feelings.
Spis treści
Preface
CHAPTER 1 The coronavirus and other plagues
CHAPTER 2 An overview
CHAPTER 3 What is trauma?
CHAPTER 4 A bunch of fives:
CHAPTER 5 Definitions: Further definitions
CHAPTER 6 Dissociative identity disorder
CHAPTER 7 War and atrocity
CHAPTER 8 A further cornucopia of concepts
CHAPTER 9 An ending that cannot conclude
REFERENCES
Index
O autorze
Dr Valerie Sinason is a poet, writer, child psychotherapist, and adult psychoanalyst. A member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists and of the British Psychoanalytical Society, she helped to pioneer the field of disability psychotherapy and served as founding President of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability. She is also the founder of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies in London, and has worked extensively with severely traumatised individuals suffering from dissociative identity disorder. Previously, she has worked as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, the Portman Clinic, the Anna Freud Centre, and St. George’s Hospital Medical School in the University of London. Her many books include Mental Handicap and the Human Condition: New Approaches from the Tavistock, now in its second edition.
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