Introduction ¿ The abused and the abuser: Victim¿perpetrator dynamics Warwick Middleton, Adah Sachs, and Martin J. Dorahy 1. Weaponized sex: Defensive pseudo-erotic aggression in the service of safety Richard P. Kluft 2. Extreme adaptations in extreme and chronic circumstances: The application of "weaponized sex" to those exposed to ongoing incestuous abuse Warwick Middleton 3. Conflicts between motivational systems related to attachment trauma: Key to understanding the intra-family relationship between abused children and their abusers Giovanni Liotti 4. Through the lens of attachment relationship: Stable DID, active DID and other trauma-based mental disorders Adah Sachs 5. Dying for love: An attachment problem with some perpetrator introjects Valerie Sinason 6.

Predicting a dissociative disorder from type of childhood maltreatment and abuser¿abused relational tie Christa Kr¿ger and Lizelle Fletcher 7. Victim¿perpetrator dynamics through the lens of betrayal trauma theory Kerry L. Gagnon, Michelle Seulki Lee, and Anne P. DePrince 8. Shame as a compromise for humiliation and rage in the internal representation of abuse by loved ones: Processes, motivations, and the role of dissociation Martin J. Dorahy 9. Knowing and not knowing: A frequent human arrangement Sylvia Solinski 10. Mother¿child incest, psychosis, and the dynamics of relatedness Joan Haliburn 11.

Dissociation in families experiencing intimate partner violence Alison Miller 12. Organized abuse in adulthood: Survivor and professional perspectives Michael Salter 13. Treatment strategies for programming and ritual abuse Colin Ross 14. Issues in consultation for treatments with distressed activated abuser/protector self-states in dissociative identity disorder Richard A. Chefetz 15. Wilhelm Fliess, Robert Fliess, Ernest Jones, Sandor Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud Warwick Middleton Endnote ¿ A personal perspective: The response to child abuse then and now Jeffrey Masson.