Dialogues With Forgotten Voices: Relational Perspectives On Child Abuse Trauma And The Treatment Of Severe Dissociative Disorders

by Harvey L. Schwartz

Harvey Schwartz's territory is the severe end of the child sexual abuse continuum, where victims' experiences are so unthinkable and their adaptations so bizarre that the rest of us are tempted to pronounce them fictions-whereupon we become complicit by subverting the survivors' struggles to heal. Schwartz synthesizes trauma theory and relational psychoanalysis to make sense of perpetrator, collaborator, and victim pathologies, and exposes the tortuous double-binds of therapy for and with dissociative patients. His office is the last stop on a kind of underground treatment railroad; his say-it-isn't-so case material reverberates throughout.

Genres: Psychology, Mental Health, Abuse

528 pages, Hardcover

First published November 10, 2000

Reviews

[Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the best book since Putnam on DID, both how it works and how it comes to be.

[Claire · Rating 5 out of 5]

Comprehensive. "Accurate". Up there as a top, must read.

[肥啾 H · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice demo of giving an unstinting look at child-abuse trauma and neglect—its varia- tions, its components, its effects, its most extreme manifestations, its cultural embeddedness—toward recognizing its role in driving and creating severe dissociative disorders.