Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

  1 The Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma: How We Become Fragmented

  2 Understanding Parts, Understanding Traumatic Responses

  3 Changing Roles for Client and Therapist

  4 Learning to See Our “Selves”: An Introduction to Working with Parts

  5 Befriending Our Parts: Sowing the Seeds of Compassion

  6 Complications of Treatment: Traumatic Attachment

  7 Working with Suicidal, Self-Destructive, Eating Disordered, and Addicted Parts

  8 Treatment Challenges: Dissociative Systems and Disorders

  9 Repairing the Past: Embracing Our Selves

10 Restoring What Was Lost: Deepening the Connection to Our Young Selves

11 Safety and Welcome: The Experience of Earned Secure Attachment

Appendix A: Five Steps to “Unblending”

Appendix B: Meditation Circle for Parts

Appendix C: Internal Dialogue Technique

Appendix D: Treatment Paradigm for Internal Attachment Repair

Appendix E: Dissociative Experiences Log

Appendix F: The Four Befriending Questions

Index