Sinason - Attachment, trauma and multiplicity: working with dissociative identity disorder

Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity

Second edition

This revised edition of Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity investigates the still unaddressed and unexplored subject of dissociative identity disorder (DID). With brand new chapters on police work and attachment theory, it has been fully updated to include new research and the latest understanding of patterns of attachment theory that lead to dissociation.

With contributions from psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and service users, this book covers the background history and a description of the condition along with the issues of diagnoses and treatment. It also looks at:

the phenomenon of DID

the conflicting models of the human mind that have been found to try and understand DID

the political conflict over the subject, including problems for the police

clinical accounts and personal writing of people with DID.

Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity, Second Edition will prove essential reading for therapists and mental health workers as well as being a valuable resource for graduates and researchers.

Valerie Sinason is an Adult Psychoanalyst and a Child and Adult Psychotherapist registered with both the BPC and UKCP psychotherapy registers. Since 1998 she has been Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies. She is an Honorary Consultant Psychotherapist to the Cape Town Child Guidance Clinic, University of Cape Town Psychology Department.

Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity

Second edition

Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder

Edited by Valerie Sinason

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 2002 by Routledge

Second edition published 2011 by Routledge
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2011 selection and editorial matter, Valerie Sinason; individual chapters, the contributors.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Attachment, trauma, and multiplicity: working with dissociative identity disorder/edited by Valerie Sinason.2nd ed.
p.; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-415-49179-2 (hbk)ISBN 978-0-415-49181-5 (pbk) 1.
Multiple personality. 2. Multiple personality-Treatment. I. Sinason, Valerie, 1946
[DNLM: 1. Multiple Personality Disorder. 2. Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic-psychology. WM 173.6 A883 2010]
RC569.5.M8A845 2010
616.85236dc22
2010017064

ISBN 0-203-83114-4 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN: 978-0-415-49179-2 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-415-49181-5 (pbk)

To all those with Dissociative Identity Disorder and their brave others/alters whom I have been privileged to meet.

They have dared to face, change and educate yet another professional while carrying a burden, the mere whiff of which can cause secondary traumatisation.

Their existence is a living monument to the loyalty, resilience, terror, pain, courage and creativity of a small child.