ABSTRACT
Complex trauma and dissociation are basically disorders of childhood abuse and/or chronic abuse. There is an enormous amount of academic support indicating clearly that child abuse, especially in its most serious forms, has extreme consequences on the entire human bio/psycho/social system. This chapter focuses on how dissociation presents in clinical populations and how it is classified definitions of depersonalization, amnesia and derealization or the medical classification model. It examines the notion that dissociation is a naturally occurring processing style that under certain conditions produces dissociation as a defence strategy. This would be the neurobiological approach. The chapter suggests that dissociation is a specific way in which the 'personality is organized and developed the personality organization characterized by different degrees of division in typically integrated psychobiological actions systems'. The core symptoms of dissociation include amnesia, depersonalization, derealization, and identity confusion. Primary Structural Dissociation: One predominate Apparently Normal Personality (ANP) and one Emotional Personality (EP); the latter is often not very elaborate.
