Description
Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsAbout the Author x
Series Preface
Mark G. Willaims xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xvi
Chapter 1 Dissociation 1
Chapter 2 A Reconsideration of Freud's Views of Trauma 16
Chapter 3 Back to Janet: Early Studies of Trauma, Repression and Dissociation 29
Chapter 4 The Effects of Trauma and Abuse on the Developing Self 41
Chapter 5 The Effects of Trauma and Abuse upon Internal and External Object Relations, Belief Systems, and Psychobiology 60
Chapter 6 Remembering, Forgetting and Confabulating: Terror in the Consulting Room 73
Chapter 7 Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder 103
Chapter 8 What is Going on in Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder? 121
Chapter 9 Therapeutic Considerations with MPD/DID 140
Chapter 10 Illustration of Therapy with MPD/DID: A Composite Fictitious Case - Discussion 160
Chapter 11 Reflections of Evil: The Mystery of Deep Perversion 170
Epilogue 185
Appendix: Guidelines for Patients Regarding Memories of Childhood Events 188
References 191
Index 203
