Multiple Selves, Multiple Voices: Working with Trauma, Violation and Dissociation / Edition 1

by Phil Mollon

Overview

The 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. The author explores the implications of working with personalities structured around trauma and pretence. The many complex and bewildering aspects of the therapeutic process are discussed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471963301
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/04/1999
Series:	Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology , #46
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Phil Mollon is a member of the Independent Group within the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is also a clinical psychologist, and trained in psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic.

Table of Contents

About 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