Understanding and treating trauma-related dissociation : following exposure to sexual abuse as a child in CPTSD (complex PTSD) and DID (Dissociative

Understanding and Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation in CPTSD (Complex PTSD) and DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) following Sexual Abuse is a book primarily aimed for therapists and clinicians. The book highlights, among other things, the damage that sexual abuse of a child generates, not only acute damage in childhood but also the damage that the patient carries with her throughout life. The book follows a common thread and goes from milder sexual abuse of children to extreme, torture-like sexual abuse of children with organized and ritual elements and describes how treatment methods need to be adapted and linked to the damage that the patient has suffered through the sexual abuse. The patient's damage is measured via Wonsa's model SAIS (Sexual Abuse Injury Syndrome) which links the degree of sexual abuse the patient has been exposed to as a child and in adulthood to the patient's current symptoms with a special focus on the diagnosis of CPTSD and DID. The book describes the