Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors

Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation

Janina Fisher

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781134613083
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 The Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma: How We Become Fragmented
• 2 Understanding Parts, Understanding Traumatic Responses
• 3 Changing Roles for Client and Therapist
• 4 Learning to See Our “Selves”: An Introduction to Working with Parts
• 5 Befriending Our Parts: Sowing the Seeds of Compassion
• 6 Complications of Treatment: Traumatic Attachment
• 7 Working with Suicidal, Self-Destructive, Eating Disordered, and Addicted Parts
• 8 Treatment Challenges: Dissociative Systems and Disorders
• 9 Repairing the Past: Embracing Our Selves
• 10 Restoring What Was Lost: Deepening the Connection to Our Young Selves
• 11 Safety and Welcome: The Experience of Earned Secure Attachment
• 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
• Index