How can we help our patients process traumatic memories without re-traumatizing and shaking them? Pacing in trauma therapy explores how therapists can manage this difficulty. While no one can completely alleviate the pain of those who have been traumatized, this book describes how the suffering that arises from therapeutic work on traumas can be reduced and contained. Helping individuals with dissociative identity disorder, unspecified dissociative disorder, or post-traumatic stress disorder can be very challenging: The impact of painful, frightening, and humiliating memories on the psyche of trauma patients and their current lives can rarely be diminished without strenuous therapeutic interventions. Sometimes it is nearly impossible.