Dissociative Identities: Attachment-based Approaches to Psychotherapy (The Bowlby Centre Monograph Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032696656 ISBN 13: 9781032696652

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032696656
• ISBN 13: 9781032696652
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174
• Editor: Richardson Sue, Goodwin Melanie, Jack Emma, Jowett Michele