Incorporating new chapters on attachment theory, police work and recent research, this update of the 2002 edition treats the still inadequately-addressed subject of dissociative identity
disorder (DID). Psychoanalyst/psychotherapist Sinason (U. of Cape Town) introduces DID as a childhood defense against trauma and its theoretical formulations. In 16 chapters, therapists and
child protection professionals in the UK, US, and South Africa discuss an attachment-based approach; narrative therapy; and DID's relation to posttraumatic stress disorder, and "possession" in
non-Western cultures. Also included are perspectives of persons who survived ritual abuse via DID; an interview with Flora Rheta Schreiber (Sybil), a pioneer in the field of child abuse studies
and psycho-histories of those with multiple personalities; and resources for people with DID and those working with them. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
