COLIN A. ROSS, MD, is Medical Director of the Dissociative Disorders Program at the Charter Behavioral Health System of Dallas, a private psychiatric facility. In 1995 he formed the Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma, which provides education, conducts research, and delivers clinical services with a focus on psychological trauma and dissociative disorders. A past president of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation, he is the author of The Osiris Complex: Case Studies in Multiple Personality Disorder, Satanic Ritual Abuse: Principles of Treatment, and Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry.

THE HISTORY OF DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER.; The History Prior to and Including Freud.; Freud to the Present.; DIAGNOSIS AND CLINICAL FEATURES OF DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER.; Epidemiology of Dissociative Identity Disorder and Dissociation.; Clinical Features of Dissociative Identity Disorder.; Structured Interview and Self--Report Measures of Dissociation.; Dissociative Identity Disorder and Other Psychiatric Disorders.; Dissociative Identity Disorder and Nonclinical Dissociation.; Skeptical Criticisms of Dissociative Identity Disorder.; TREATMENT OF DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER.; Treatment Outcome of Dissociative Identity Disorder.; General Principles of Treatment.; The Problem of Attachment to the Perpetrator and the Locus of Control Shift.; Specific Techniques of Treatment: The Middle and Late Phases of Therapy.; Other Therapeutic Considerations.; Afterword--Dissociative Identity Disorder in the Twenty--First Century.; Appendices.; References.; Indexes.