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The Self and Complex Trauma

In this book, Dr Zepinic provides a theoretical and practical concept of the complex trauma impact upon personality (the self). This book will contribute for better diagnostic and clinical therapy for those who have been victims of horrible traumatic experience (war, rape, terrorism, violence, etc.) which often affect the victim’s personality for the entire life. The book has two major goals: (1) to provide comprehensive knowledge about the trauma impact upon the victim’s self, and (2) to initiate better understanding of the therapeutic needs for one’s traumatised self, as complex traumatic experience alters the trauma survivor’s capacity to cope with everyday living and destruct the identity of the self. Traumatic events overwhelm the ordinary human adaptations to life and generally involve threats to life or bodily integrity, leading to victim’s ‘self-at-worst’.

V. Zepinic

Dr V. Zepinic PhD is a clinician having over 30 years of experience in treating patients with mental health problems. He is a member of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK), European Society for Traumatic Stress, and the UK Psychological Trauma Society. He is founder of the Dynamic Therapy for treating complex PTSD. He was Senior Lecturer at the Queen Mary University of London, Clinical Associate at the University of Sydney and Macquarie University. He is the author of five professional books, published over 50 articles and served on the editorial board on numerous scientific journals.

Austin Macauley Publishers