Madness or Knowing the Unbearable Truth - 9781138327283

Taylor & Francis

Madness or Knowing the Unbearable TruthA Psychoanalytic Journey in Search of Sanity\nAuthor(s): Tova Zaltz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138327283, 978-1138327283\nSynopsis\nThe Impossible Choice offers readers a narrative of the relationship between a therapist and her patient who desperately wants to discover her past. With no memory and no way of knowing what was real, her long therapeutic journey was to last 26 years, half her lifetime. Her only reality was the life she lived in the presence of her therapist. The narrative unfolds to reveal a story of horrific events that must be hidden, yet can no longer be kept secret. It sheds light on how chronic long-term traumatisation within a closed family circle can create madness in a vulnerable and lonely child, and helps reader gain an understanding of the enigmatic phenomena of Dissociated Identity Disorder.\n\nHaving been terrorized into silence, destroying h.