Trauma Dissociation and Multiplicity

<p><em>Trauma Dissociation and Multiplicity</em> provides psychoanalytic insights into dissociation in particular Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and offers a variety of responses to the questions of self identity and dissociation. With contributions from a range of clinicians from both America and Europe areas of discussion include:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>the concept of dissociation and the current lack of understanding on this topic</li> <li>the verbal language of trauma and dissociation </li> <li>the meaning of children’s art</li> <li>the dissociative defence from the average to the extreme</li> <li>pioneering new theoretical concepts on multiple bodies.</li> </ul><p>This book brings together latest findings from research and neuroscience as well as examples from clinical practice and includes work from survivor-writers. As such this book will be of interest to specialists in the field of dissociation as well as psychoanalysts both experienced and in training. </p><p>This book follows on from Valerie Sinason’s <em>Attachment Trauma and Multiplicity Second Edition</em> and represents a confident theoretical step forward. </p>