Product reviews for Understanding Dissociative Disorders

Marlene Hunter has planted her flag in the still fertile soil once cultivated by Charcot, Freud, Bernheim, and Janet, some hundred years ago in their investigations of "difficult patients." Understanding Dissociative Disorders: A guide for physicians and health care workers, will take its place amongst your other valued reference books, and come off the shelf frequently to inform one of the most difficult challenges faced by clinicians: the medically ill and/or undiagnosed patient with a dissociative disorder. In a day and time where neuroscientists have worked out enough kinks from new theory to teach us that differences between Mind and Body are not so distinct, Dr. Hunter's work provides an unusually practical guide to these "grey areas' of diagnostic inquiry. Each area of inquiry is capped by a clinically astute section: "What can you do?" With a mingling of wisdom and candor, you will enjoy her writing voice in this exposition of thirty years of clinical effort to understand that which is on the edge of understanding. Her respect for her patients, and her ingenious approaches to medical care, will delight you and keep you reading long after you have found that for which you were looking!