Main description:

*First book on the component-based psychotherapy (CBP) approach, in development for 40 years at the prestigious Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute.
*Addresses the impact of chronic, long-term childhood maltreatment (considered the basis of complex trauma), with a unique focus on emotional abuse and neglect.
*Melds humanistic, dynamic, and interpersonal approaches to help adult clients work through sensitive issues.
*Ready demand: authors have done trainings worldwide.
*Notable in CBP is the attention given to the therapist's experience, offering real help for preventing burnout.

Contents:

Foreword, Bessel A. van der Kolk
Introduction, Christine A. Courtois
I. Overview and Background
1. Component-Based Psychotherapy with Adult Survivors of Emotional Abuse and Neglect, with Hilary B. Hodgdon
2. Into the Abyss: A Series of Moments in the Clinical Process for Client and Therapist
II. The Component-Based Psychotherapy Model
3. Client and Therapist Relational Patterns and Contextual Factors, with Margaret E. Blaustein
4. Reaching across the Abyss: A Relational Approach
5. Regulation of Complex Trauma
6. Regulating on the Brink of the Abyss
7. Fragmentation of Self and Dissociative Parts
8. Working with Dissociative Parts in the Depths of the Abyss
9. Constructing a Narrative, Constructing a Self, with Jodie Wigren
10. Transcending the Abyss: Life Narrative and Identity Development
III. The Component-Based Psychotherapy Model Integration: Out of the Abyss
11. Tailoring Treatment with CBP: Individualized Adaptations and Effective Pacing
12. Applications of CBP: Revisiting David and Nicole
Appendix. Component-Based Psychotherapy: Clinician Self-Assessment, Jana Pressley