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Trauma, Dissociation, Attachment & Neuroscience: A new paradigm for understanding severe mental distress
/1 Comment/in Articles, Publications /by JacquiSpecial Edition: Complex reactions to severe trauma
The paper by Dillon, Johnstone & Longden in this volume (Trauma, Dissociation, Attachment and Neuroscience) brings together evidence from the neuroscience and mental health literature with the hope that this might lead to a paradigm shift in the way that people are seen and helped. Hopefully they are right, and biopsychosocial models worthy of the name may come to dominate practice, rather than models that sometimes masquerade as biopsychosocial but which are basically ‘bio-bio-bio models’, with social and psychological factors reduced to mere events that trigger an underlying genetic illness (Read, Bentall & Fosse, 2009).
JCPCP is a peer-reviewed journal which values personal experience above professional boundaries and doctrinal jargon. It provides a forum for ideas, experience and views of people working in the psychological world and those who use psychotherapy or receive psychiatric services. The journal encourages a critical, reflexive view of psychology and counselling and is a constant challenge to orthodoxy. Our contributors reflect on their work and experiences in therapy, in relationships and in institutions. The journal embraces philosophical, radical and scientific perspectives in its analysis of psychological, psychiatric and psychotherapeutic systems. With a following wind, it will sometimes make you laugh out loud.
Dissociation
/by RaiDissociation
On The Web
International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation – www.isst-d.org
ISSTD seeks to advance clinical, scientific, and societal understanding about the prevalence and consequences of chronic trauma and dissociation.
Mosaic Minds – www.mosaicminds.org
Online resource centre compiled by survivors of dissociative identify disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder). Includes: ‘keeping safe’, ‘reading room’, ‘interactive community forums’, ‘books’ and links section
PODS – www.pods-online.org.uk
PODS (Positive Outcomes for Dissociative Survivors) works to make recovery from dissociative disorders a reality through:
- training
- informing
- supporting
The Pottergate Centre – www.dissociation.co.uk
The Centre offers a wide range of services to professionals, to clients who may have a dissociative disorder and to the public at large.
Sidran Traumatic Stress Institute – www.sidran.org
International not for profit organisation aimed at supporting people to recovery form the effects of trauma (including dissociative disorders). Includes a comprehensive resource section.
Trauma and Abuse Group – www.tag-uk.net
TAG promotes education and raises awareness in the field of dissociation, attachment, trauma and abuse recovery.
In Print
Case, J.F. (1991). The Flock: the Autobiography of a Multiple Personality. Abacus.
Castelli, J. (2000). Looking Inside: Life Lessons From a Multiple Personality in Pictures and Words. Castelli Studios Publishing.
Gil, Eliana. (1990). United We Stand: A Book for People with Multiple Personalities. Launch Press.
Mayer, R. (1988). Through Divided Minds: Probing the Mysteries of Multiple Personalities. A Doctors Story. Avon
Mollon, P. (1996). Multiple Selves, Multiple Voices: Working with Trauma, Violation and Dissociation. Wiley.
Moskowitz, A., Schafer, I. & Dorahy, M. (Eds.) (2009). Psychosis, trauma and dissociation: Emerging perspectives on severe psychopathology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Rheta Schreiber, F. (1973). Sybil: The True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities. Penguin Books.
Ross, C. (1994). The Osiris Complex: Case-Studies in Multiple Personality. University of Toronto Press.
Sinason, V. (2002). Attachment, Trauma and multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Brunner-Routledge.
Stout, M. (2001). The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness – Tales of Multiple Personality in Everyday Life.
Attachment
/by RaiAttachment & Child Development
On The Web
The Bowlby Centre – www.thebowlbycentre.org.uk
An organisation committed to the development, promotion and practice of attachment-based and relational psychotherapy.
In Print
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis – http://www.karnacbooks.com/JournalDetail.asp?ID=5
A new leading edge journal for clinicians working relationally with their clients; it is a professional journal, not an academic journal, featuring cultural articles, politics, reviews and poetry relevant to attachment and relational issues; an inclusive journal welcoming contributions from clinicians of all orientations seeking to make a contribution to attachment approaches to clinical work.
Axline, V. (new edition 1990). Dibs in Search of Self: Personality Development in Play Therapy. Penguin.
Benamer, S. (2010). Telling Stories? Attachment-Based Approaches to the Treatment of Psychosis. Karnac.
Bowlby, J. (1999). Attachment. Attachment and Loss (vol. 1) (2nd ed.). New York: Basic Books.
Bowlby, J. (1973). Separation: Anxiety & Anger. Attachment and Loss (vol. 2); (International psycho-analytical library no.95). London: Hogarth Press.
Bowlby, J. (1980). Loss: Sadness & Depression. Attachment and Loss (vol. 3); (International psycho-analytical library no.109). London: Hogarth Press.
Bowlby, J. (1988). A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development. Tavistock professional book. London: Routledge.
Bowlby, J. (new edition 2005). The Making & Breaking of Affectional Bonds. Routledge Classics.
Gerhardt, S. (2004). Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain. Routledge.
Stern, D. (1992). Diary of a Baby: What Your Child Sees, Feels, and Experiences. Basic Books; New edition.
Stern, D. (2000).The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Development Psychology. Basic Books.
Sinason, V. (2002). Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Brunner-Routledge
Winnicott, D.W. (1965). The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of the Emotional Development, London, Hogarth Press.
Winnicott. D.W. (new edition 2000). The Child, the Family, and the Outside World. Penguin.
Winnicott. D.W. (new edition 2006). The Family and Individual Development. Routledge Classics.
Winnicott. D.W. (new edition 1991). The Piggle: An Account of the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Little Girl. Penguin.
Winnicott. D.W. and Winnicott, C. (new edition 1990). Home is Where We Start from: Essays by a Psychoanalyst. Penguin.
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/0 Comments/in Articles, Publications /by JacquiTrauma, Dissociation, Attachment & Neuroscience: A new paradigm for understanding severe mental distress
/1 Comment/in Articles, Publications /by JacquiSpecial Edition: Complex reactions to severe trauma
The paper by Dillon, Johnstone & Longden in this volume (Trauma, Dissociation, Attachment and Neuroscience) brings together evidence from the neuroscience and mental health literature with the hope that this might lead to a paradigm shift in the way that people are seen and helped. Hopefully they are right, and biopsychosocial models worthy of the name may come to dominate practice, rather than models that sometimes masquerade as biopsychosocial but which are basically ‘bio-bio-bio models’, with social and psychological factors reduced to mere events that trigger an underlying genetic illness (Read, Bentall & Fosse, 2009).
JCPCP is a peer-reviewed journal which values personal experience above professional boundaries and doctrinal jargon. It provides a forum for ideas, experience and views of people working in the psychological world and those who use psychotherapy or receive psychiatric services. The journal encourages a critical, reflexive view of psychology and counselling and is a constant challenge to orthodoxy. Our contributors reflect on their work and experiences in therapy, in relationships and in institutions. The journal embraces philosophical, radical and scientific perspectives in its analysis of psychological, psychiatric and psychotherapeutic systems. With a following wind, it will sometimes make you laugh out loud.
Dissociation
/by RaiDissociation
On The Web
International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation – www.isst-d.org
ISSTD seeks to advance clinical, scientific, and societal understanding about the prevalence and consequences of chronic trauma and dissociation.
Mosaic Minds – www.mosaicminds.org
Online resource centre compiled by survivors of dissociative identify disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder). Includes: ‘keeping safe’, ‘reading room’, ‘interactive community forums’, ‘books’ and links section
PODS – www.pods-online.org.uk
PODS (Positive Outcomes for Dissociative Survivors) works to make recovery from dissociative disorders a reality through:
- training
- informing
- supporting
The Pottergate Centre – www.dissociation.co.uk
The Centre offers a wide range of services to professionals, to clients who may have a dissociative disorder and to the public at large.
Sidran Traumatic Stress Institute – www.sidran.org
International not for profit organisation aimed at supporting people to recovery form the effects of trauma (including dissociative disorders). Includes a comprehensive resource section.
Trauma and Abuse Group – www.tag-uk.net
TAG promotes education and raises awareness in the field of dissociation, attachment, trauma and abuse recovery.
In Print
Case, J.F. (1991). The Flock: the Autobiography of a Multiple Personality. Abacus.
Castelli, J. (2000). Looking Inside: Life Lessons From a Multiple Personality in Pictures and Words. Castelli Studios Publishing.
Gil, Eliana. (1990). United We Stand: A Book for People with Multiple Personalities. Launch Press.
Mayer, R. (1988). Through Divided Minds: Probing the Mysteries of Multiple Personalities. A Doctors Story. Avon
Mollon, P. (1996). Multiple Selves, Multiple Voices: Working with Trauma, Violation and Dissociation. Wiley.
Moskowitz, A., Schafer, I. & Dorahy, M. (Eds.) (2009). Psychosis, trauma and dissociation: Emerging perspectives on severe psychopathology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Rheta Schreiber, F. (1973). Sybil: The True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities. Penguin Books.
Ross, C. (1994). The Osiris Complex: Case-Studies in Multiple Personality. University of Toronto Press.
Sinason, V. (2002). Attachment, Trauma and multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Brunner-Routledge.
Stout, M. (2001). The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness – Tales of Multiple Personality in Everyday Life.
Attachment
/by RaiAttachment & Child Development
On The Web
The Bowlby Centre – www.thebowlbycentre.org.uk
An organisation committed to the development, promotion and practice of attachment-based and relational psychotherapy.
In Print
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis – http://www.karnacbooks.com/JournalDetail.asp?ID=5
A new leading edge journal for clinicians working relationally with their clients; it is a professional journal, not an academic journal, featuring cultural articles, politics, reviews and poetry relevant to attachment and relational issues; an inclusive journal welcoming contributions from clinicians of all orientations seeking to make a contribution to attachment approaches to clinical work.
Axline, V. (new edition 1990). Dibs in Search of Self: Personality Development in Play Therapy. Penguin.
Benamer, S. (2010). Telling Stories? Attachment-Based Approaches to the Treatment of Psychosis. Karnac.
Bowlby, J. (1999). Attachment. Attachment and Loss (vol. 1) (2nd ed.). New York: Basic Books.
Bowlby, J. (1973). Separation: Anxiety & Anger. Attachment and Loss (vol. 2); (International psycho-analytical library no.95). London: Hogarth Press.
Bowlby, J. (1980). Loss: Sadness & Depression. Attachment and Loss (vol. 3); (International psycho-analytical library no.109). London: Hogarth Press.
Bowlby, J. (1988). A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development. Tavistock professional book. London: Routledge.
Bowlby, J. (new edition 2005). The Making & Breaking of Affectional Bonds. Routledge Classics.
Gerhardt, S. (2004). Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain. Routledge.
Stern, D. (1992). Diary of a Baby: What Your Child Sees, Feels, and Experiences. Basic Books; New edition.
Stern, D. (2000).The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Development Psychology. Basic Books.
Sinason, V. (2002). Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Brunner-Routledge
Winnicott, D.W. (1965). The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of the Emotional Development, London, Hogarth Press.
Winnicott. D.W. (new edition 2000). The Child, the Family, and the Outside World. Penguin.
Winnicott. D.W. (new edition 2006). The Family and Individual Development. Routledge Classics.
Winnicott. D.W. (new edition 1991). The Piggle: An Account of the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Little Girl. Penguin.
Winnicott. D.W. and Winnicott, C. (new edition 1990). Home is Where We Start from: Essays by a Psychoanalyst. Penguin.
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