Preface
1. The coronavirus and other plagues
2. An overview
3. What is trauma?
4. A bunch of fives: A mathematical trauma education!
5. Definitions: Further definitions for curiosity and clarity
6. Dissociative identity disorder
7. 7 War and atrocity
8. A further cornucopia of concepts
9. An ending that cannot conclude
References
Index
Dr Valerie Sinason is a poet, writer, child psychotherapist, and adult psychoanalyst. A member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists and of the British Psychoanalytical Society, she helped to pioneer the field of disability psychotherapy and served as founding President of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability. She is also the founder of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies in London, and has worked extensively with severely traumatised individuals suffering from dissociative identity disorder. Previously, she has worked as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, the Portman Clinic, the Anna Freud Centre, and St. George’s Hospital Medical School in the University of London. Her many books include Mental Handicap and the Human Condition: New Approaches from the Tavistock, now in its second edition.
'This amazing little book helps each of us to speak and understand
the unspeakable. Are we brave enough to know the truth in this
dangerous but lifegiving journey? The book warns and encourages us
that knowing can retraumatise at each life stage but also make us
strong. Enjoy the clarity and beauty of Valerie’s whistle-stop tour
of trauma and dissociation.'
*Baroness Hollins, Emeritus Professor, University of London;
Emeritus President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists*
'Valerie Sinason ventures into troubled emotional spaces to hear
what we don’t know and, often, don’t wish to know. In plain
language she enables us to see forms of cruelty and the psychic
consequences which lead to the extreme splitting of psyches into
dissociated and multiple self-states … A book of interest to
clinicians and a much wider audience.'
*Dr Susie Orbach, Psychoanalyst and founder of The Women’s Therapy
Centre, London, and author of Fat is a Feminist Issue, The
Impossibility of Sex, and Bodies*
'This is a small but powerful and thought-provoking book written by
a leader in the field of dissociative studies. [...] Sinason writes
at her best, with evocatively worded phrases and powerful
metaphors. [...] And the device of starting and ending with the
same short poem was brilliant, and one of the ways that Sinason
tried to actively engage her readers. She also writes with a deeply
humane voice—non-judgemental, caring, and compassionate to us when
we cannot bear to know or cannot help some-one.'
*Susan Wright*
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