ABSTRACT
This second edition of the award-winning original text brings together in one volume the current thinking and conceptualizations on dissociation and the dissociative disorders. Comprised of ten parts, starting with historical and conceptual issues, and ending with considerations for the present and future, internationally renowned authors in the trauma and dissociation fields explore different facets of dissociation in pathological and non-clinical guises. This book is designed to be the most comprehensive reference book in the dissociation field and aims to provide a scholarly foundation for understanding dissociation, dissociative disorders, current issues and perspectives within the field, theoretical formulations, and empirical findings. Chapters have been thoroughly updated to include recent developments in the field, including: the complex nature of conceptualization, etiology, and neurobiology; the various manifestations of dissociation in clinical and non-clinical forms; and different perspectives on how dissociation should be understood.
This book is essential for clinicians, researchers, theoreticians, students of clinical psychology psychiatry, and psychotherapy, and those with an interest or curiosity in dissociation in the various ways it can be conceived and studied.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|135 pages
Historical and Conceptual Issues
chapter 7|13 pages
Adaptive Dissociation
part 2|114 pages
Etiological and Developmental Considerations
chapter 10|16 pages
The Relationship Between Attachment and Dissociation
chapter 11|32 pages
Attachment Trauma and the Developing Right Brain
chapter 12|14 pages
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Dissociative Disorders
part 3|91 pages
Theoretical Approaches
chapter 18|13 pages
Contextual Dissociation Theory
part 4|95 pages
The Dissociative Disorders
chapter 24|17 pages
A Grounded Theory of Dissociative Identity Disorder
part 5|135 pages
Dissociation as a Transdiagnostic Process
chapter 28|14 pages
Peritraumatic Dissociation and Chronic Posttraumatic Symptomatology
chapter 34|17 pages
Maladaptive Daydreaming is a Dissociative Disorder
part 6|74 pages
Neurobiological and Cognitive Understandings of Dissociation
chapter 38|32 pages
Towards an Ecology of Dissociation in the Context of Trauma
chapter 40|16 pages
Subjective Amnesia in Dissociative Identity Disorder
part 7|25 pages
Assessment and Measurement
chapter 42|11 pages
True Drama or True Trauma?
part 8|61 pages
Treatment Considerations and Conceptualizations
chapter 43|26 pages
Encountering the Singularities of Multiplicity
chapter 44|15 pages
Controversies in the Treatment of Traumatic Dissociation
chapter 45|18 pages
The Unconscionable in the Unconscious
part 9|43 pages
Treatment Challenges and Therapist Considerations
part 10|25 pages
The Future