Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity ─ Working With Dissociative Identity Disorder

"This new edition of Attachment, Trauma & Multiplicity captures the state of the art in Great Britain. It is a most welcome addition to the dissociative disorders field" Colin A. Ross, M.D., President, The Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma, Richardson, Texas, USA.

This revised edition of Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity investigates the still unaddressed and unexplored subject of Dissociative Identity Disorder. 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.

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.

Part I: Mapping the Territory: Childhood Aetiology, Abuse, Attachment Theory Research, Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder. Sinason, Introduction. Fonagy, Multiple Voices versus Meta-cognition: an Attachment Theory Perspective. Steele, Multiplicity Revealed in the Adult Attachment Interview: When Integration and Coherence Means Death. Bentovim, Undoing the Effects of Complex Trauma – Creating a Lifespan Trauma Narrative with Children and Young People. Swartz, Dissociation and Spirit Possession in Non-Western Countries: Notes Towards a Common Research Agenda. Part II: Attachment Focus: Mainly Theory. Sachs, As Thick as Thieves, or: the Ritual Abuse Family – an Attachment Perspective on a Forensic Relationship. Southgate, A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Multiplicity and Dissociation. Zulueta, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Dissociation: The Traumatic Stress Service In The Maudsley Hospital. Mollon, Dark Dimensions of Multiple Personality. Part III: Attachment Focus-Mainly Practice. Sinason, The Shoemaker and the Elves. Goodwin, Snow White and the Seven Diagnoses. Richardson, Will You Sit By Her Side? An Attachment-based Approach to Work with Dissociative Conditions. Whewell, Profound Desolation: The Working Alliance with Dissociative Patients in an NHS Setting. Part IV: Other frames of reference: Linguistic, Diagnostic, Forensic and Historic Issues. Galton, Dissociation Sounds More Scientific. Coleman, Dissociative Disorders: Recognition within Psychiatry and RAINS. Sinason, Interview with Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll. Kahr, Multiple Personality Disorder and Schizophrenia: an Interview with Professor Flora Rheta Schreiber. Information for People with DID and Professionals Working with Them. Index.