Inner Voices and Dissociative Parts of the Personality. Psychotherapeutic Work Using EMDR

In working with clients who have experienced chronic traumatic experiences in early childhood, therapists often encounter alienated parts of the personality that are not recognized by the individual. One manifestation of these parts is the inner voices that clients hear, which they feel do not belong to them but are imposed and foreign. The voices may comment on thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of the person, periodically forcing them to act as if against their will. Such are the consequences of complex trauma—disintegration, disruption of personality cohesion, its fragmentation.

The book by Dolores Mosquera, a well-known EMDR therapist and specialist in trauma and dissociation, is intended as a practical guide for working with such clients. Dolores describes the principles and structure of clinical work in general and the structure of clinical sessions, as well as specific methods and techniques, supplementing the description with numerous examples from practice and detailed analysis of real therapeutic cases.

In her work, she draws on various psychotherapeutic and theoretical approaches that take into account the presence of dissociative parts and are oriented toward trauma work, particularly EMDR therapy. However, the book will be useful and interesting not only for EMDR therapists but also for all specialists seeking fresh ideas and new tools for healing individuals suffering from the consequences of complex trauma and dissociative states.