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* Offers extremely comprehensive coverage of dissociative disorders
authored by leading experts in the field * Includes new content
related to a broad range of topics including complex PTSD,
daydreaming, hypnosis, incest, medicine, and shame * Provides
revised and updated content on treatment approaches and
considerations as well as therapist challenges
An exploration of the newfound connections between mental illness
and trauma For decades, the idea that serious mental illnesses
(SMIs) are almost exclusively biologically-based and must be
treated pharmacologically has been commonplace in psychology
literature. As a result, many mental health professionals have
stopped listening to their clients, categorizing their symptoms as
manifestations of neurologically-based disturbed thinking. Trauma
and Serious Mental Illness is the groundbreaking series of works
that challenge this standard view and provides a comprehensive
introduction to the emerging perspective of SMIs as trauma-based.
This unique collection illustrates how different psychotherapy
approaches can lead to reduced symptomatology, decreased
psychological distress, and improved functioning in individuals
living with SMIs. Each extensively-referenced chapter in Trauma and
Serious Mental Illness offers mental health workers a
forward-looking theoretical inquiry, empirical study, or critical
treatise providing compelling counter evidence to challenge the
widespread belief that SMIs are not reactions to the extreme and
extremely disturbing circumstances embodied by psychological
trauma. In addition to the etiological application, this revealing
text proposes ways to incorporate this cutting-edge approach toward
treatment options as well. Contributors to Trauma and Serious
Mental Illness suggest that: childhood trauma is related to
psychotic disorders dissociation can be confounded with psychotic
symptoms auditory hallucinations can be diagnostic of dissociation
rather than psychosis psychosis is related to the quality of family
of origin environment and to age of onset of childhood abuse
bipolar and trauma-related disorders sometimes overlap individuals
with SMIs suffer related trauma even in treatment facilities and
much more! Trauma and Serious Mental Illness is an eye-opening
resource for mental health professionals, psychologists,
counselors, psychiatrists, social workers, trauma workers, and
educators and students in these disciplines.
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