Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1 Structural Dissociation of the Personality
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Structural Dissociation of the Personality: Basics
Chapter 3: Primary Structural Dissociation: Prototypes of the Apparently Normal and the Emotional Parts of the Personality
Chapter 4: Secondary Structural Dissociation of the Personality
Chapter 5: Tertiary Structural Dissociation of the Personality
Chapter 6: Trauma-related Symptoms in Light of Structural Dissociation
Chapter 7: Structural Dissociation and the Spectrum of Trauma-related Disorders
Part II Chronic Traumatization and a Janetian Psychology of Action
Introduction Part II: A Janetian Psychology of Action
Chapter 8: Synthesis and Its Limitations in Trauma Survivors
Chapter 9: Traumatization as a Syndrome of Nonrealization
Chapter 10: The Hierarchy of Action Tendencies
Chapter 11: Phobic Maintenance of Structural Dissociation
Chapter 12: Assessment of the Traumatized Patient
Chapter 13: Promoting Adaptive Action: General Treatment Principles
Part III Treatment
Chapter 14: Phase 1 Treatment and Beyond: Overcoming the Phobia of the Attachment and Attachment Loss with the Therapist
Chapter 15: Phase 1 Treatment and Beyond: Overcoming the Phobia of Trauma-Derived Mental Actions
Chapter 16 Phase 1 Treatment and Beyond: Overcoming the Phobia of Dissociative Parts
Chapter 17: Phase 2 Treatment: Overcoming the Phobia of Traumatic Memory
Chapter 18: Phase 3 Treatment: Integration of the Personality and Overcoming the Phobias of Normal Life
Epilogue
References

About the Author

Onno van der Hart, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychopathology of Chronic Traumatization, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, and a psychologist / psychotherapist at the Sinai Center for Mental Health, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is a Past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). He was recently honored as an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau, Netherlands. Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and researcher. He is affiliated with Mental Health Care Drenthe, The Netherlands and collaborates with various Universities. He is a former director of the Executive Council of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD). Kathy Steele, MN, CS, is Clinical Director of Metropolitan Counseling Services, a training and low cost psychotherapy center, and is in private practice with Metropolitan Psychotherapy Associates in Atlanta, Georgia. She serves on the Board of the International Society for the Study of Traumatic Stress, and is a former member of the Executive Council of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation.

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