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

by Schwartz, Harvey L

• ISBN13: 9780465095735
• ISBN10: 0465095739
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-22
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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
Necessary Illusions: The Multiple Dilemmas of Dissociative Survival	3	(48)
Unfathomable Realities, Discredited Testimony: Child Abuse, Victims, and Perpetrators	51	(48)
Child Abuse and Cultural Ambivalence: Complicity, Incredulity, and Denial	99	(28)
Part II Restoration of the Traumatized, Dissociative Self
Major Trends in Relational Psychoanalytic Thought: Implications for Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation	127	(38)
From Inclusion to Integration: Basic Concepts in Psychotherapy with Severely Dissociative Trauma Survivors	165	(42)
From Domination to Recognition: The Restoration of Intersubjectivity and Paradoxical Awareness	207	(40)
The Destruction and Restoration of Fantasy and Aggression	247	(46)
The Destruction and Restoration of Attachment and Critical Thinking	293	(54)
Part III Survival, Transformation, and Transcendence
Surviving Dissociation, Surviving Destruction: Transcending Secondary Traumatization and Reclaiming Faith	347	(50)
The Descent for the Sake of the Ascent: Revelation, Witnessing, and Reparation	397	(56)
Notes	453	(18)
References	471	(28)
Index	499