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.

夏安诺，哲学博士，荷兰乌特勒支大学临床及健康心理学系长期心理创伤精神病理学荣休教授。他也是一位私人执业的心理治疗师，曾任国际创伤压力研究协会会长。他擅长治疗复杂心理创伤，在全球多个国家和地区主持心理创伤及人格解离专业培训和治疗工作。他的临床工作和专业著作为他赢得众多奖项。

聂艾乐，哲学博士，荷兰心理学家、心理治疗师、研究员和专业顾问。他投身诊断、治疗和研究严重心理受创患者已有三十多年，在创伤相关的人格解离和人格解离障碍方面有广泛的教学和写作经验。因心理创伤治疗的工作成就，多次受到国际创伤及解离研究学会的嘉奖，包括终生成就奖。

史嘉思，私人执业的心理治疗师，美国乔治亚州亚特兰大埃默里大学兼任教授。她曾任国际创伤及解离研究学会会长，现在是该会的院士。她的临床工作和著作为她赢得众多奖项。她在心理创伤及人格解离领域中著作等身，也经常在不同国家讲学并提供专业顾问服务。

龙迪，中国科学院心理研究所/中国科学院心理健康重点实验室教授、保护儿童及家庭研究服务中心主任。中国医科大学医学学士（1986）、神经心理学硕士（1989），香港中文大学社会工作学系哲学博士（2005）。中国心理学会首批注册督导师（D-O6-51）/危机干预工作委员会委员，中国心理卫生协会心理治疗与咨询专业委员会委员/家庭治疗学组理事，中国社会工作学会学校和家庭社会工作专业委员会专家委员。代表作：《综合防治儿童性侵犯专业指南》、《性之耻，还是伤之痛——中国家外儿童性侵犯家庭经验探索性研究》、《回家之路——灾后家庭心理支持自助问答手册》、《学会保护自己：远离儿童性侵犯行动指南》、《我们的青春，我们的身体》。译著：《打开“家”锁——中国家庭治疗与厌食症的临床研究》（马丽庄著）、《生活之道——一个完形治疗师的悟与思》（梁玉麒著）。荣获全国女科技工作者社会服务奖（2016）、香港中文大学杰出校友奖（2013）、香港中文大学青年学术奖（2007）。