The Truth about Trauma and Dissociation

Everything You Didn't Want to Know and Were Afraid to Ask

Sinason
Confer
168 pages
ISBN-13 : 9781913494087
November 2020

“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 has enabled 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 The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute, New York, and author of Fat is a Feminist Issue, The Impossibility of Sex, and Bodies.

An accessible and sensitive guide to the key concepts involved when working with people who have experienced trauma and dissociation. Covering all degrees of trauma – from complex, childhood attachment ruptures, sexual abuse, torture, war and, even the coronavirus pandemic – the author helps us to learn what is needed about some of the worst possible experiences, without a loss of feelings.