Time to (Re-)integrate Dissociation into Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy?

Editor : Paul Cundy, Editor : Golan Shahar

Time to (Re-)integrate Dissociation into Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy?

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2025
  • Cover : Hardback
  • Pages : 248
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98038
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032909141
  • ISBN 10 : 1032909145

Table of Contents


Time to (re-)integrate dissociation into psychoanalytic psychotherapy? An introduction to the special issue on dissociative disorders and psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Paul Cundy and Golan Shahar

1. The curious reader’s guide to dissociation: understanding dissociative processes, a commentary
Richard A. Chefetz

2. When daydreaming becomes maladaptive: phenomenological and psychoanalytic perspectives
Richard A. Chefetz, Nirit Soffer-Dudek and Eli Somer

3. Dissociative identity disorder: a disorder of diagnostic and therapeutic paradoxes
Richard J. Loewenstein and Bethany Brand

4. Dissociative depression: a psychodynamic view
Vedat Şar

5. Metaphoric, metonymic and psychotic somatoform dissociation
Dana Amir

6. Self-medication, traumatic reenactments, and dissociation: a psychoanalytic perspective on the relationship between childhood trauma and substance abuse
Antonino Costanzo, Gianluca Santoro and Adriano Schimmenti

7. Addressing dissociation symptoms with trauma-focused mentalization-based treatment
E. Rüfenacht, L. Shaverin, J. Stubley, M. L. Smits, A. Bateman, P. Fonagy and P. Luyten

8. Dissociation in suicidal depression: a Reformulated Object-Relations Theory (RORT) perspective
Golan Shahar, Morgan Robison and Thomas E. Joiner

Epilogue: The Formidable Human Need to “Not Know”
Dana Amir, Richard Chefetz, Antonino Costanzo, Paul Cundy, Thomas E. Joiner, Gianluca Santoro, Morgan Robison Vedat Şar, Adriano Schimmenti, Golan Shahar, Nirit Soffer-Dudek and Eli Somer

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