Product reviews for Understanding Dissociative Disorders

This timely book manages to educate both the experienced and inexperienced family doctor or health worker in the complex and controversial subject of Dissociative Identity Disorder. It is written in a clear and personal style that allows the author's long knowledge of the subject to be transmitted comfortably.

Dr Hunter focuses provides us with a formidably titled sequence of chapters but it is important to note that the way these subjects are explored makes it accessible for the professional new to this work. We are taken through the important areas of physical pain, medication, other organ systems, neurophysiology,, research and references, relationship and sexual problems, children with DID parents, eating disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder and co-morbidity with dissociation. These problem areas are explored with concern and respect for the client.



GPs are often the first port of call for people with dissociative disorders. They often present with ranges of mental and physical pain. The more they meet health care workers with an understanding of their predicament, the more there is hope for a health service that lessens rather than adds to the dissociative client's pain. This book should be on nursing and medical students' essential textbooks.