ISSTD Member, Pam Stavropoulos PhD, has written a book review of Frank Putnam’s The Way We Are, which was featured in the Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal of Australia (PACJA) Vol.5(1) in August, 2017. This detailed book review introduces the concepts of a dissociative mind to a broader audience of counsellors and psychotherapists, and makes for great reading, of interest to those who have not read Putnam’s book, as well as those who already have.

Pam commences with this opening paragraph:

In an age of hyperbole and incessant demands on our attention, recommendation of a ‘must read’ book can seem an imposition as well as a cliché. Yet I do not hesitate to make that endorsement in this case. Frank Putnam’s The Way We Are is his magnum opus after years of service to the field of psychotherapy in general and study of the dissociative disorders in particular. It is a ground-breaking work that proposes what amounts to nothing less than a paradigm shift in the way we conceptualise and respond to the workings of the mind per se.