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Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity. Ed. Valerie Sinason. Routledge. 2010.

Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity is an edited collection by Valerie Sinason that offers primarily psychoanalytic perspectives on dissociation, especially dissociative identity disorder, with a strong clinical and survivor-informed emphasis. It brings together contributors from both Europe and North America. The volume aims to deepen understanding of the concept of dissociation and the ongoing theoretical and clinical confusion around it.

Valerie Sinason is a British poet, writer, child psychotherapist, and adult psychoanalyst renowned for her pioneering work in disability psychotherapy and trauma/dissociation studies. She began at the Tavistock Clinic in London, where from 1987 to 1999 she served as Consultant Child Psychotherapist.

She founded the Clinic for Dissociative Studies in 1998, specializing in dissociative identity disorder and severe trauma. Sinason received the ISSTD Lifetime Achievement Award (2016), Fellowship (2017), and Board election (2019).

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