This book takes us through the key concepts of trauma and dissociation, showing how to work successfully with people who have experienced all degrees of trauma, from working with complex, childhood attachment ruptures to traumatic incidents in later life.
Chapter 1. The Coronavirus and other Plagues Plague, bodies, touch, attachment, mortality Chapter 2. Overview Refugees, dispossession, immigration, compassion fatigue, treatment of children Chapter 3. What is Trauma? Language, innocence, deserving and nondeserving, the moral defence, dissociation Chapter 4. A Bunch of Fives Categorisations of symptoms, syndromes and distorders Chapter 5. Definitions Further explanation of terms explained Chapter 6. Dissociative Identity Disorder Attachment, infanticidal attachment, organised ritual abuse Chapter 7. War and Atrocity o Abuse, suicide o Female soldiers o Race and warfare, LGBT soldiers, child soldiers, flashbacks o Moral injury, impact of killing in war, shellshock Chapter 8. A Cornucopia of Concepts Chapter 9: An Ending that Cannot Conclude