Multiple Selves, Multiple Voices: Working With Trauma, Violation and Dissociation - Couverture souple

Mollon, Phil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0471952923 ISBN 13 : 9780471952923

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

This volume describes ways of understanding the large group of patients who are self-abusers and hear voices, but who are not schizophrenic. Sometimes loosely described as having a borderline personality, such patients are often better understood as suffering from a trauma-based dissociative disorder. The most extreme form of this is the multiple personality disorder (MPD). The book draws upon the understanding of trauma and dissociation that has developed within the last decade, and shows how this can transform our view of many severe personality disorders. MPD is presented as a disorder based upon trauma and pretence - a pretence which structures the personality. The author explores the implications of working with personalities structured around trauma and pretence. The many complex aspects of the therapeutic process are then discussed.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

A large number of difficult patients who self–harm and hear voices, but who are not schizophrenic, are sometimes diagnosed as having a borderline personality disorder, but may often be better understood as suffering from trauma–based dissociative disorder, the most extreme form of which is Multiple Personality/Dissociative Identity Disorder. This is a book of clinical, theoretical and historical importance. Drawing on exciting recent developments in work on trauma and dissociation, Phil Mollon provides a clinically based conceptual model and account of the therapeutic process with patients whose personalities are structured around trauma and pretence. The complexities and hazards of the process are fully considered, as are the problems of Recovered Memory and Pseudomemory. The author illustrates the concepts and process by a detailed account of therapy with MPD/DID, and the specific problem of the perverse sexual abuse of children is dealt with in a chapter on the nature of deep perversion and evil. Trauma and dissociation present challenges to both psychoanalysis and mainstream psychiatry and clinical psychology. Therapists, counsellors and nurses who work within the cognitive or analytic approaches to assessment and treatment will welcome this thoughtful and useful book.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The book draws upon the exciting and illuminating understanding of trauma and dissociation that has developed within the last decade and shows how this can transform our view of many severe personality disorders. MPD is presented as a disorder based upon trauma and pretence – a pretence which structures the personality. The author explores the implications of working with personalities structured around trauma and pretence. The many complex and bewildering aspects of the therapeutic process are discussed.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0471952923
• ISBN 13: 9780471952923
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 250
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible