Building on the work of Janet, Jung, and Fairbairn, the author details a comprehensive theory of pathology and integrates the major schools of treatment into a holistic outpatient milieu therapy. Abroms emphasizes the role of personality dissociation in depressive pathologies, and works toward unifying the self into a more aware, spiritually connected whole. Clinicians working from a variety of viewpoints will find fruit in his work.

Argues that severe personality disorders result from the shattering of the self and subsequent warfare between subpersonalities. Traces the notion to 19th-century French psychiatry, and shows how it can be modernized by recognizing the connection between such a shattering and unresolved traumatic gr