Dissociative Identities - Attachment-Based Approaches to Psychotherapy

Dissociative Identities draws on expertise from practitioners and survivors to explore therapeutic approaches to dissociation resulting from complex trauma.

List of contents

1. Using an Attachment-Based Model to Understand and Work with People with Dissociative Identity 2. Exploration of the Relational Dialogue Between Client and Therapist 3. What Are We Doing? Stabilisation Work with a Mind Control System of Altered Identities 4. On Being With: Working Creatively with Clients with Dissociative Identity 5. When the Alleged Abuser Is Famous: Some of the Problems in Dealing with Alleged VIP Abuse 6. The Parts, the Whole and the Real Person: An Attachment Perspective 7. The Perspective of an Expert by Experience: Learning to Thrive - So Many Cogs in the Wheel 8. The Perspective of an Expert by Experience: Clinical Theory and Practice

About the author

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 organisation 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 a formal diagnosis of 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.

Summary

Dissociative Identities draws on expertise from practitioners and survivors to explore therapeutic approaches to dissociation resulting from complex trauma.

Product details

• Authors: Sue Goodwin Richardson
• Assisted by: Melanie Goodwin (Editor), Emma Jack (Editor), Michele Jowett (Editor), Sue Richardson (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032696706
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3269670-6
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: The Bowlby Centre Monograph Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Trauma & shock, Psychotherapy, Trauma and shock, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis