ABSTRACT

Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations explores the potential of mindfulness and explains why this level of developmental human achievement is so precarious within traumatic stress, especially traumatic dissociation. Chapters discuss the connection and disconnection between mindfulness and dissociative disorders and highlight the importance of gently creating a mindfulness practice for traumatized individuals. Readers will learn how to exercise the part of the brain that is responsible for mindfulness and how to regulate the part that is responsible for dissociation, and they’ll come away from the book with tips that will help even the most dissociative client to reap the benefits of mindfulness practices.

chapter 1|12 pages

Mindfulness

chapter 4|11 pages

Foundational Understanding of Dissociation

chapter 5|19 pages

Childhood Trauma Constructed and Deconstructed

How Mindfulness Is Prevented from Developing

chapter 6|23 pages

An Academic Perspective of Dissociation

chapter 7|18 pages

Trauma, Dissociation, and Mindfulness

Trauma-Informed Practices

chapter 9|16 pages

Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations

Trauma-Informed Practices that Facilitate Growth