They typically have a wide array of symptoms, often classified under different combinations of comorbidity, which can make assessment and treatment complicated and confusing for the therapist. Many patients have substantial problems with daily living and relationships, including serious intrapsychic conflicts and maladaptive coping strategies. Their suffering essentially relates to a terrifying and painful past that haunts them. Even when survivors attempt to hide their distress beneath a facade of normality a common strategy therapists often feel besieged by their many symptoms and serious pain. Small wonder that many survivors of chronic traumatization have seen several therapists with little if any gains, and that quite a few have been labeled as untreatable or resistant. In this book, three leading researchers and clinicians share what they have learned from treating and studying chronically traumatized individuals across more than 65 years of collective experience. Based on the theory of structural dissociation of the personality in combination with a Janetian psychology of action, the authors have developed a model of phase-oriented treatment that focuses on the identification and treatment of structural dissociation and related maladaptive mental and behavioral actions. The foundation of this approach is to support patients in learning more effective mental and behavioral actions that will enable them to become more adaptive in life and to resolve their structural dissociation. This principle implies an overall therapeutic goal of raising the integrative capacity, in order to cope with the demands of daily life and deal with the haunting remnants of the past, with the unfinished business of traumatic memories. Of interest to clinicians, students of clinical psychology and psychiatry, as well as to researchers, all those interested in adult survivors of chronic child abuse and neglect will find helpful insights and tools that may make the treatment more effective and efficient, and more tolerable for the suffering patient.

夏安諾，哲學博士，荷蘭烏特勒支大學臨床及健康心理學係長期心理創傷精神病理學榮休教授。他也是一位私人執業的心理治療師，曾任國際創傷壓力研究協會會長。他擅長治療復雜心理創傷，在全球多個國傢和地區主持心理創傷及人格解離專業培訓和治療工作。他的臨床工作和專業著作為他贏得眾多奬項。

聶艾樂，哲學博士，荷蘭心理學傢、心理治療師、研究員和專業顧問。他投身診斷、治療和研究嚴重心理受創患者已有三十多年，在創傷相關的人格解離和人格解離障礙方麵有廣泛的教學和寫作經驗。因心理創傷治療的工作成就，多次受到國際創傷及解離研究學會的嘉奬，包括終生成就奬。

史嘉思，私人執業的心理治療師，美國喬治亞州亞特蘭大埃默裏大學兼任教授。她曾任國際創傷及解離研究學會會長，現在是該會的院士。她的臨床工作和著作為她贏得眾多奬項。她在心理創傷及人格解離領域中著作等身，也經常在不同國傢講學並提供專業顧問服務。

龍迪，中國科學院心理研究所/中國科學院心理健康重點實驗室教授、保護兒童及傢庭研究服務中心主任。中國醫科大學醫學學士（1986）、神經心理學碩士（1989），香港中文大學社會工作學係哲學博士（2005）。中國心理學會首批注冊督導師（D-O6-51）/危機乾預工作委員會委員，中國心理衛生協會心理治療與谘詢專業委員會委員/傢庭治療學組理事，中國社會工作學會學校和傢庭社會工作專業委員會專傢委員。代錶作：《綜閤防治兒童性侵犯專業指南》、《性之恥，還是傷之痛——中國傢外兒童性侵犯傢庭經驗探索性研究》、《迴傢之路——災後傢庭心理支持自助問答手冊》、《學會保護自己：遠離兒童性侵犯行動指南》、《我們的青春，我們的身體》。譯著：《打開“傢”鎖——中國傢庭治療與厭食癥的臨床研究》（馬麗莊著）、《生活之道——一個完形治療師的悟與思》（梁玉麒著）。榮獲全國女科技工作者社會服務奬（2016）、香港中文大學傑齣校友奬（2013）、香港中文大學青年學術奬（2007）。