Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors integrates a neurobiologically informed understanding of trauma, dissociation, and attachment with a practical approach to treatment, all communicated in straightforward language accessible to both client and therapist. Readers will be exposed to a model that emphasizes "resolution"-a transformation in the relationship to one's self, replacing shame, self-loathing, and assumptions of guilt with compassionate acceptance. Its unique interventions have been adapted from a number of cutting-edge therapeutic approaches, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, mindfulness-based therapies, and clinical hypnosis. Readers will close the pages of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors with a solid grasp of therapeutic approaches to traumatic attachment, working with undiagnosed dissociative symptoms and disorders, integrating "right brain-to-right brain" treatment methods, and much more. Most of all, they will come away with tools for helping clients create an internal sense of safety and compassionate connection to even their most dis-owned selves.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Alienation from Self: How We Survive Overwhelming Experiences
Chapter Two: Understanding Parts, Understanding Traumatic Responses
Chapter Three: Parts Instead of Wholes: New Roles for Client and Therapist
Chapter Four: Seeing Our 'Selves:' an Introduction to Parts Work
Chapter Five: Befriending Our Parts: Sowing Seeds of Compassion
Chapter Six: Complications of Treatment: Traumatic Attachment
Chapter Seven: Treatment Challenges: Suicidality, Self-Harm, Addictions, and Eating Disorders
Chapter Eight: Complications of Treatment: Dissociative Disorders
Chapter Nine: Repairing the Past: Embracing Our Selves
Chapter Ten: Restoring What was Lost to Wounded Children
Appendix A: Five Steps to "Unblending"
Appendix B: Meditation Circle for Parts
Appendix C: Internal Dialogue Technique
Appendix D: Treatment Paradigm for Internal Attachment Repair
Appendix E: Dissociative Experiences Log
Appendix F: The Four Befriending Questions
