"The study of dissociation is relevant to anyone undertaking research or treatment of mental health problems. Cognitive Behavioural Approaches to the Understanding and Treatment of Dissociation uses a cognitive approach to de-mystify the processes involved in linking traumatic incidents to their effects. Kennedy, Kennerley and Pearson present a full and comprehensive understanding of mental health problems involving dissociative disorders and their...

Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist Jennifer Bartlett, and a charismatic father, European actor Mathieu Carrière. From an early age, Alice is forced to navigate her mother's recovered memories of ritualized sexual abuse, which she turns into art, and her father's confusing attentions. Her days are a mixture of privilege, neglect, loneliness,...

"Hungry for Ecstasy: Trauma, The Brain, and the Influence of the Sixties by Sharon Klayman Farber explores the hunger for ecstatic experience that can lead people down the road to self-destruction. In an attempt to help mental health professionals and concerned individuals understand and identify the phenomenon and ultimately intervene with patients, friends, and loved ones, Farber discusses the different paths taken on the road to ecstatic states....

"Two sisters inexorably altered by a terrible accident, a missing nine-year-old girl, and the shocking connection between them"--

Le robaron su vida y sus recuerdos; ahora quiere recuperarlos. Dos meses antes de su boda, el financiero James Donato viaja a México siguiendo a su hermano Phil, del que sospecha que blanquea capitales. Pero James desaparece en extrañas circunstancias en alta mar y finalmente es declarado muerto. Seis años y medio más tarde, sale del estado de fuga disociativa en el que ha estado viviendo en Oaxaca, bajo el nombre de Carlos Domínguez, artista,...