Description: Sally Maslansky is living the perfect life: a beautiful home in Malibu, California, a successful Hollywood producer husband who adores her, and a recently adopted son she treasures. But when Sally begins to remember the sexual abuse she endured as a child, her world begins to unravel. In this gripping and provocative memoir, psychotherapist Maslansky shares how childhood trauma led her to develop dissociative identity disorder (DID), and how, with the help of renowned therapist Daniel J. Siegel, she finds hope, healing, and recovery against all odds.
Brief description:
Sally Maslansky, LMFT, has been in private practice for twenty years in Chapel Hill, NC. She treats families, adoption, trauma, parenting, and adult individuals. Her training is in interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB), mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), adult attachment interview (AAI), attachment theory, polyvagal theory practices, mindfulness, and the wheel of awareness practice.
Review Quotes:
"Sally Maslansky's A Brilliant Adaptation accurately names and describes dissociative identity responses as just that: brilliant adaptations. Not only is the book a tremendous contribution to our literature about dissociative identities, but it also offers us keen insight into the experience of discovery and exploration as a detailed memoir of psychotherapy. Very grateful to Sally for this work, and to Daniel Siegel for his willingness and open-mindedness. A stellar contribution that ought to be in the collection of every clinician working with dissociation in their practices."
--Jamie Marich, PhD, author of Dissociation Made Simple, and coauthor of Trauma and the 12 Steps