For general practitioners, social workers, therapists and family members alike, trying to understand and deal with the emotional turmoil and behavioural consequences of dissociation it like trying to navigate uncharted waters without a map or a compass.
As a pioneer of these uncharted waters, Marlene Hunter has provided an essential map and compass in her work, "Understanding Dissociative Disorders.'
Marlene has approached her work with both sensitivity and scientific objectivity to give a rounded and comprehensive guide to identifying and understanding this baffling array of problems. I recommend the book as an essential tool in the armoury of every family doctor, social worker and therapist, whatever their discipline or conceptual framework for therapy may be. It should also be required reading for all students of mental health and should be in the library of every school, college, university and teaching hospital.