Resources Related to Trauma, Abuse, Dissociation & Therapy
Organisations & Agencies
Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP) www.energypsych.org
ACEP offers training and certification in energy psychology (EP) to professional healthcare providers, internationally. It also promotes research into EP and works to establish credibility and efficacy of EP methods.
Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) www.ait-uk-europe.com
This UK and European website offers information about an energy therapy called Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT). It is for qualified counsellors and therapists who are interested in training in AIT and for individuals looking for an AIT therapist.
Advanced Integrative Therapy Institute (AITI) www.ait.institute
This American based website is managed by Asha Clinton, the founder of the energy therapy AIT.
Blue Knot Foundation www.blueknot.org.au
This Australian foundation offers support and therapy to people impacted by complex trauma. Their website contains helpful information for survivors of childhood abuse, or those who work with them.
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) www.bacp.co.uk
The BACP works to promote and develop safe, ethical and competent practice in counselling and psychotherapy, to protect the public and their professional members. People seeking therapy can access Find a Therapist through the BACP website.
Carolyn Spring www.carolynspring.com
Carolyn Spring helps people recover from trauma and to reverse adversity. She offers training throughout the UK and is author of several books and articles.
Clinic for Dissociative Studies www.clinicds.co.uk
This national organisation specialises in the care and treatment of people with dissociative disorders.
Energy Psychotherapy Network www.energypsychotherapyworks.co.uk
This UK based website gives comprehensive information about different types of energy psychotherapy, up and coming training for practitioners, as well as details of energy psychotherapists.
European Society for Trauma and Dissociation (ESTD) www.estd.org
This organisation is for professionals. It promotes awareness and understanding of trauma and dissociative disorders, through workshops, webinars and conferences.
Internal Family Systems Institute www.ifs-institute.com
This is an American based website managed by Richard Schwartz, the founder of IFS. It offers much information and news about IFS, including: on-line training, podcasts, videos, books, articles and other resources.
Internal Family Systems – IFS Training www.internalfamilysystemstraining.co.uk
IFS Training UK offers information on the IFS method of therapy and training for therapists. This website also provides the facility to find an IFS therapist.
International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) www.isst-d.org
ISSTD is the oldest complex trauma and dissociation society in the world. It seeks to advance clinical, scientific and societal understanding about the prevalence and consequences of chronic trauma and dissociation.
Mind www.mind.org.uk
Mind is a mental health charity that helps people make choices about treatment, understand their rights and reach out to sources of support. It offers information and help regarding dissociative disorders, including DID.
Nscience UK www.nscience.uk
Nscience UK offers professional development to therapists, through workshops, conferences and online courses. Their international speakers are the best in their field. Among many topics, their training includes understanding and working with childhood trauma & abuse and dissociative disorders.
PESI UK www.pesi.co.uk
Pesi UK provides training for psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists & mental health professionals. They are the largest provider of CPD in the UK & Europe, offering world-class training across all modalities and themes - including trauma & dissociative disorders - some of which are free of charge.
The Complex Trauma and Dissociative Clinic www.ctadclinic.co.uk
Dr Mike Lloyd runs this clinic. It offers assessment, diagnosis, therapy, supervision, consultation and training to therapists and people with dissociative disorders.
The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC) www.napac.org.uk
NAPAC provides support for adults who have experienced any form of childhood abuse.
The Pottergate Centre for Trauma & Abuse www.dissociation.co.uk
The Centre offers a wide range of services to professionals, to clients who may have a dissociative disorder such as dissociative identity disorder (DID) and to the public at large.
The Trauma Therapist Project (TTP) www.thetraumatherapistproject.com
Based in the USA it offers on-line resources and podcasts for clinicians.
UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) www.psychotherapy.org.uk
The UKCP is a professional association of psychotherapy organisations and practitioners in the UK. It promotes psychotherapy and counselling, research, high standards of training and practice, and the wider provision of therapy to the public.
Books
Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder edited by Valerie Sinason. Second Edition. Published by Routledge (2011)
Coping With Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training For Patients And Therapist by Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele and Onno Van Der Hart. Published by Norton (2011)
Dear Little Ones: A book about Dissociative Identity Disorder for young alters by Jade Miller. Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2015) * view article for more information about Dear Little Ones
Dear Little Ones: Book 2: About Parents by Jade Miller. Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2016)
Dear Little Ones: Book 3: About Being Whole by Jade Miller. Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2018)
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation by Janina Fisher. Published by Routledge (2017)
Hidden Selves: An Exploration of Multiple Personality by M. Walker and J. Black. Published by Open University Press (1999)
Holistic Therapy for People with DID by P. Frankish & Valerie Sinason. Published by Karnac (2017)
Internal Family Systems Therapy by Richard Schwartz. Published by Guilford Press (1995)
Internal Family Systems: New Dimensions by Martha Sweezy and Ellen L. Ziskind. Published by Routledge (2013).
It Didn’t Start With You - How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are And How We End The Cycle by Mark Wolynn. Published by Penguin Books (2017)
Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices - edited by Lady Xenia Bowlby and Deborah Briggs. Published by Karnac (2014)
Mental Handicap and the Human Condition: An Analytic Approach to Intellectual Disability (Second Edition) by Valerie Sinason. Published by Free Association Books (2010)
Our House, Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder by Lindsay Schofield. Published by Routledge, (2021) * view article for more information about Our House
Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy by Phil Mollon. Published by Karmac (2008)
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy After Child Abuse: The Treatment of Adults and Children Who Have Experienced Sexual Abuse, Violence and Neglect in Childhood by D. Mc Queen, R. Kennedy, Valerie Sinason & F. Maxted. Published by Karnac (2008)
Recovery is my best revenge: my experience of trauma, abuse and dissociative identity disorder: Collected Essays Volumes 1 & 2, by Carolyn Spring. Published by Carolyn Spring Publishing (2016)
Shattered but Unbroken : Voices of Triumph and Testimony by A. van de Merwe & Valerie Sinason. Published by Karnac (2016)
The Body Keeps The Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk. Published by Penguin Books (2014)
The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook by Deborah Bray Haddock. Published by Mc Graw Hill (2001)
The Healing Power of EFT and Energy Psychology: Tap into Your Body’s Energy to Change Your Life for the Better by David Feinstein, Donna Eden & Gary Craig. Published by Piatkus Books (2006).
The Mosaic Mind: Empowering the Tormented Selves of Child Abuse Survivors by Regina A. Goulding and Richard C. Schwartz. Published by Norton (1995)
The Truth about Trauma and Dissociation: Everything You Didn’t Want to Know and Were Afraid to Ask by Valerie Sinason. Published by Confer Books (2020)
Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity: Working on Identity and Selves edited by Valerie Sinason. Published by Routledge (2012)
Trauma And Memory - The Science and the Silenced edited by Valerie Sinason & Ashley Conway. Published by Routledge (2022)
Treating Complex Trauma and Dissociation: A Practical Guide to Navigating Therapeutic Challenges by L. Danylchuk & K. Connors. Published by Routledge (2016)
Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Guidebook for Survivors and Practitioners by Lindsay Schofield. Published by Routledge, (2021) * view article for more information about this Guidebook
Unshame – healing trauma-based shame through psychotherapy by Carolyn Spring. Published by Carolyn Spring Publishing (2019)
Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma by Peter Levine and Ann Frederick. Published by North Atlantic Books (1997)
Publications
‘Energy psychology: Efficacy, speed, mechanisms’ by David Feinstein in EXPLORE, 15:5, 2019, pages 340-351. A succinct and compelling paper that reviews and addresses the most salient criticisms of energy psychology, one-by-one. Access it here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550830718303513
Expressions of Energy Psychotherapy edited by James Barrett. Contact: jamesbarrett1@btinternet.com
Films
The Three Faces of Eve (1957) Joanne Woodward and Lee J. Cobb star in this classic film, based on Corbett H. Thigpen’s novel of the same name.
Sybil (1976) Sybil is one woman with 13 personalities. Sally Field and Joanne Woodward star in this two-part American television film.
Please note there is a 2007 portrayal that is less accurate.
DVDs
A logical way of being: The reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder and other Complex Dissociative Conditions.
No Two Paths The Same: living and working therapeutically with dissociative identity disorder.
Both these DVDs are learning resource films produced by First Person Plural. See: Resources related to Organisations & Agencies
P.S.
If anyone would like evidence based resources to be added to this list, please contact me at: gillfrostTGW@gmail.com