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Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder

A Guidebook for Survivors and Practitioners
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Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder by Lindsay Schofield serves as an accessible companion guide to the picture book Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder. It offers a broad introduction to childhood trauma and its lasting impacts, focusing on dissociation and DID. The book blends clinical accuracy with warmth and compassion, providing practical exercises and reflective discussions to foster personal engagement, whether individually or in treatment settings. Additional features include downloadable resources, page-by-page insights into the picture book’s images, and advice on treatment and support for survivors and their networks.
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This book is ideal for survivors of trauma and dissociative identity disorder, their families and friends, as well as counsellors, psychologists, social care workers, and professionals working in mental health and trauma-related fields.

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This accessible guidebook has been created to be used alongside the picture book, Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder, as a broad introduction to childhood trauma and its legacies, with a focus on dissociation and DID. this is an invaluable resource for survivors of trauma and for those who support them.

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This accessible guidebook has been created to be used alongside the picture book, Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder, as a broad introduction to childhood trauma and its legacies, with a focus on dissociation and DID.

This clear and easy-to-read resource offers an insight into trauma, its continuing effects and the continuum of dissociation. Practical exercises and opportunities for reflective discussion are included throughout to encourage personal engagement either individually or through treatment. Written with clinical accuracy, warmth and compassion, it will expand the reader’s knowledge of DID and deepen the understanding, application and usefulness of the picture book.

Key features include:

  • Photocopiable and downloadable resources and activities designed to develop a richer and more personal understanding of the development of DID
  • A page-by-page insight into images from the picture book
  • Further reading suggestions and information about treatment and support for survivors, as well as for the family, friends and professionals who journey with them

Bringing clarity to a complex issue, this is an invaluable resource for survivors of trauma and for those who support them, counsellors, psychologists, social care workers and other professionals, as well as family and friends.

Series: Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Praised for its depth and compassion, this book is described as indispensable for therapists, survivors, and their supporters alike. Reviewers highlight its educational value, accessibility, and the empowering nature of its content. It is commended as an encyclopaedic resource that navigates the complexities of trauma and dissociation with clarity and hope, making it both reassuring and informative.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367708191

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 December 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 44 Line drawings, black and white; 44 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Cassie Herschel-Shorland

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 380g

Pages: 108

About the Author

Lindsay Schofield is a Consultant Psychotherapist with a private practice in Surrey, England. She has worked in private practice for two decades, providing treatment and support to individuals and couples, helping them with a wide range of emotional and mental health challenges. A specialist in trauma and dissociation, she has dedicated thousands of hours to learning about working with survivors of complex trauma. With a strongly relational and collaborative approach, the Picture book and Guidebook were born out of desire to make the complex clear and bridge divides wrought by traumatic experiences and misunderstanding. Lindsay has written and delivered her own workshops in the UK and internationally, and provides supervision to practitioners working in different contexts, clinical and pastoral. She is accredited with the BABCP, the BACP (Senior), the ACC (Supervisor), the NCS (Senior/Supervisor) and the NCP (Senior). In her spare time, she enjoys a menagerie of animals and nature.

Cassie Herschel-Shorland is a freelance designer, illustrator, and artist. She works predominantly on increasing access to the diverse history of places, objects, and people’s associated stories. As an active tutor Cassie is also passionate about supporting mental health and wellbeing through creative workshops often in museums, galleries, or libraries; encouraging people to explore and illustrate their own stories.

Cassie has BA(Hons) in 3D design, post graduate certificate in illustration and a Master of Arts in historical illustration. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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