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Authors: Harvey L. Schwartz
ISBN-13: 9780465095735, ISBN-10: 0465095739
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: October 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Harvey L. Schwartz

Harvey L. Schwartz treats and consults on the treatment of dissociative survivors of traumatic abuse in San Francisco.

Book Synopsis

"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 pro"

	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	xiii
	Part I
	The Landscapes of Dissociative Survival, Child Abuse Trauma, and Social Complicity
1	Necessary Illusions: The Multiple Dilemmas of Dissociative Survival	3
2	Unfathomable Realities, Discredited Testimony: Child Abuse, Victims, and Perpetrators	51
3	Child Abuse and Cultural Ambivalence: Complicity, Incredulity, and Denial	99

	Part II
	Restoration of the Traumatized, Dissociative Self
4	Major Trends in Relational Psychoanalytic Thought: Implications for Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation	127
5	From Inclusion to Integration: Basic Concepts in Psychotherapy with Severely Dissociative Trauma Survivors	165
6	From Domination to Recognition: The Restoration of Intersubjectivity and Paradoxical Awareness	207
7	The Destruction and Restoration of Fantasy and Aggression	247
8	The Destruction and Restoration of Attachment and Critical Thinking	293

	Part III
	Survival, Transformation, and Transcendence
9	Surviving, Dissociation, Surviving Destruction: Transcending Secondary Traumatization and Reclaiming Faith	347
10	The Descent for the Sake of the Ascent: Revelation, Witnessing, and Reparation	397

	Notes	453
	References	471
	Index	499