Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #883894 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 296 pages

Review
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

Customer Reviews

Great book - a must read
Highly recommended. For more information on this topic, see:

Basic Information on Dissociative Identity Disorder with sections on Basic Information on DID from the DSMIVTR, The History of DID/MPD, Diagnosing DID, Responses to those that state that DID is iatrogenic or a social construct, MPD/DID connection to severe abuse, Recent information and DID resources - http://members.aol.com/smartnews/Dissociative-Identity-Disorder.htm

Recovered Memory Data with information on recovered memory corroboration, theories on recovered memory, legal information, physiological evidence for memory suppression, replies to skeptics and books and articles on memory http://members.aol.com/smartnews/recovered_memory_data.htm

Satanic ritual abuse exists all over the world. There have been reports, journal articles, web pages and criminal convictions of these horrific crimes against children and adults. http://members.aol.com/smartnews/satanic_ritual_abuse.htm