Dissociative Identities

Sue Richardson is a member of The Bowlby Centre and a UKCP registered attachment-based psychotherapist and supervisor. Melanie Goodwin is an expert by experience and co-founder of First Person Plural, an organization which raised awareness and provided training and support for people with dissociative conditions and their allies from 1997 until its closure in 2023. Emma Jack is a Minster Centre trained relational psychotherapist. She is Clinical Director for The Clinic for Dissociative Studies. Michele Jowett is an expert by experience as a person living with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Committed to sharing her experiences of dissociation and informing professionals through writing for the ESTD, ISSTD and FPP newsletters, she was instrumental in producing The Survivors Trust resources website.

Contents

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

MARK LININGTON

Introduction

SUE RICHARDSON

1 Using an attachment-based model to understand and work with people with

dissociative identity

MARK LININGTON

2 Exploration of the relational dialogue between client and therapist

CATHERINE HOLLAND

3 What are we doing? Stabilisation Work with a Mind Control System of Altered

Identities

EMMA JACK

4 On Being With: Working Creatively with Clients with Dissociative Identity

ORIT BADOUK EPSTEIN

5 When the alleged abuser is famous: some of the problems in dealing with alleged VIP abuse

VALERIE SINASON

6 The parts, the whole and the real person: an attachment perspective

ADAH SACHS IN CONVERSATIOIN WITH EMMA JACK

7 Learning to Thrive: So many cogs in the wheel

MELANIE GOODWIN

8 Reflective commentary: The perspective of an expert by experience on clinical theory

and practice

MICHELE JOWETT

Index