Dissociative Identities

Attachment-based Approaches to Psychotherapy

Sue Richardson, Melanie Goodwin, Emma Jack, Michele Jowett (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-69670-6 (ISBN)

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Dissociative Identities draws on expertise from practitioners and survivors to explore therapeutic approaches to dissociation resulting from complex trauma. The contributors provide a vivid insight into what it is like for therapist and survivor to be alongside one another in the therapy room. They highlight the challenges of work with the fragmented internal worlds of those who have survived attachment trauma and explore together what approaches can promote healing and repair.

Dissociative identity is reframed from being a disorder to an essential survival skill, and the book includes an open recognition from the perspective of both therapist and survivor of relational challenges, pitfalls and their impact on the healing process.

Dissociative Identities will be invaluable for all professionals working with survivors of complex trauma, including psychotherapists, nurses, social workers, clinical psychologists and counsellors. It will also be of interest to survivors and their networks.

Sue Richardson is a member of The Bowlby Centre and a UKCP registered attachment-based psychotherapist and supervisor. Melanie Goodwin is an expert by experience and co-founder of First Person Plural, an organization which raised awareness and provided training and support for people with dissociative conditions and their allies from 1997 until its closure in 2023. Emma Jack is a Minster Centre trained relational psychotherapist. She is Clinical Director for The Clinic for Dissociative Studies. Michele Jowett is an expert by experience as a person living with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Committed to sharing her experiences of dissociation and informing professionals through writing for the ESTD, ISSTD and FPP newsletters, she was instrumental in producing The Survivors Trust resources website.

Contents

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

MARK LININGTON

Introduction

SUE RICHARDSON

1 Using an attachment-based model to understand and work with people with

dissociative identity

MARK LININGTON

2 Exploration of the relational dialogue between client and therapist

CATHERINE HOLLAND

3 What are we doing? Stabilisation Work with a Mind Control System of Altered

Identities

EMMA JACK

4 On Being With: Working Creatively with Clients with Dissociative Identity

ORIT BADOUK EPSTEIN

5 When the alleged abuser is famous: some of the problems in dealing with alleged VIP abuse

VALERIE SINASON

6 The parts, the whole and the real person: an attachment perspective

ADAH SACHS IN CONVERSATIOIN WITH EMMA JACK

7 Learning to Thrive: So many cogs in the wheel

MELANIE GOODWIN

8 Reflective commentary: The perspective of an expert by experience on clinical theory

and practice

MICHELE JOWETT

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2025
Reihe/Serie	The Bowlby Centre Monograph Series
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	1-032-69670-2 / 1032696702
ISBN-13	978-1-032-69670-6 / 9781032696706
Zustand	Neuware