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

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

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

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

by Harvey L Schwartz

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780465095735
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 12/22/2000
Pages: 528
Sales rank: 541,646
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
Lexile: 1580L (what's this?)

About the Author

Harvey L. Schwartz treats and consults on the treatment of dissociative survivors of traumatic abuse in San Francisco.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments                                           xi
Introduction xiii
Part I
The Landscapes of Dissociative Survival, Child Abuse Trauma, and Social Complicity
1Necessary Illusions: The Multiple Dilemmas of Dissociative Survival3
2Unfathomable Realities, Discredited Testimony: Child Abuse, Victims, and Perpetrators51
3 Child Abuse and Cultural Ambivalence: Complicity, Incredulity, and Denial 99
Part II
Restoration of the  Traumatized, Dissociative Self
4 Major Trends in Relational Psychoanalytic Thought: Implications for Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation 127
5 From Inclusion to Integration: Basic Concepts in Psychotherapy with Severely Dissociative Trauma Survivors 165
6 From Domination to Recognition: The Restoration of  Intersubjectivity and Paradoxical Awareness 207
7 The Destruction and Restoration of Fantasy and Aggression 247
8The Destruction and Restoration of Attachment and Critical Thinking293
Part III
Survival, Transformation, and Transcendence
9 Surviving, Dissociation, Surviving Destruction: Transcending Secondary Traumatization and Reclaiming Faith 347
10 The Descent for the Sake of the Ascent: Revelation, Witnessing, and Reparation 397
Notes 453
References 471
Index 499

What People are Saying About This

Christine A. Courtois

This significant work is essential reading for any clinician treating this population.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

This book is a monumental intervention in a reality that cannot continue being denied.

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