Complex Psychological Trauma

Philip J. Kinsler, PhD, ABPP, is an adjunct associate professor of psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and instructor of psychiatry at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He is a past president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and the New Hampshire Psychological Association.

Part I: Core Questions and Concepts. 1. Introduction Part II: Theoretical Lenses 2. The Therapist’s Thinking Tasks 3. Contributions of the Less Trauma Aware Schools of Therapy 4. The More Trauma-Aware Theories 5. What Can We Learn from Outcome Studies of Psychotherapy? 6. The Three-Stage Consensus Model of Treatment 7. The Six Choice Points Defined Part III: The Six Crises in Detail 8. The Opening Gambit 9. The First Crisis/Emergency 10. The Empty Depression 11. Omnivorous Rage 12. Rebuilding the Devastated Life 13. Patterns of Termination