Download or read book Traumatic Relationships and Serious Mental Disorders written by Jon G. Allen and published by . This book was released on 2001-07-06 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental, physical, or sexual abuse in close personal relationships commonly results in trauma that is very different from the trauma of accidents, illness, or war. Making creative use of attachment theory to explicate the multifaceted outcomes of trauma, this book provides a powerful conceptual framework and a concise, masterly review of a huge knowledge base. Encyclopedic in scope and scholarly in its up-to-the-minute survey of research findings.