ABSTRACT
The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working With Trauma is an invaluable and cutting edge resource providing the current theory, practice, and research on trauma and dissociation within psychoanalysis. Elizabeth Howell and Sheldon Itzkowitz bring together experts in the field of dissociation and psychoanalysis, providing a comprehensive and forward-looking overview of the current thinking on trauma and dissociation.
The volume contains articles on the history of concepts of trauma and dissociation, the linkage of complex trauma and dissociative problems in living, different modalities of treatment and theoretical approaches based on a new understanding of this linkage, as well as reviews of important new research. Overarching all of these is a clear explanation of how pathological dissociation is caused by trauma, and how this affects psychological organization -- concepts which have often been largely misunderstood.
The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists, trauma therapists, and students.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |66 pages
History of complex trauma and dissociative problems in living
chapter Chapter 4|13 pages
Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud, and dissociation of the personality
chapter Chapter 5|14 pages
The Ferenczi paradox
part |76 pages
Psychoanalytic orientations and the treatment of complex trauma, dissociation, and dissociative disorders
chapter Chapter 6|12 pages
Models of dissociation in Freud's work
chapter Chapter 9|11 pages
A Kleinian perspective on dissociation and trauma
chapter Chapter 12|9 pages
Latah, an ethnic syndrome with dissociative features
part |82 pages
Aspects of psychoanalytic treatment of complex trauma and dissociation
chapter Chapter 14|12 pages
Who moved my “Swiss” cheese?
part |34 pages
Current research trends in complex trauma dissociation and dissociative disorders
