Time to (Re-)integrate Dissociation into Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy?
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : March 2025
- Cover : Hardback
- Pages : 248
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98038
- ISBN 13 : 9781032909141
- ISBN 10 : 1032909145
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This book brings together contributions from leading authors in the field of dissociation to facilitate the pursuit of integrative clinical scholarship, connecting psychoanalytic thinking and practice with dissociation research and treatment.
Dissociation is not merely altered consciousness, it is an attack on consciousness: on memory, identity, and goal-directed action. The attempts by early psychoanalytic theorists to grapple with this clinical entity were marred by the very same frustration evinced by contemporary descriptive psychopathologists who were faced with understanding the similarities and differences between dissociative symptoms and disorders and other types of psychopathologies. The DSM-V and ICD-11 categorise at least six dissociative disorders. Some of these diagnoses have provoked controversy and skepticism. Whilst many, if not most, clinicians will have encountered various forms of dissociative psychopathology, Dissociative Identity Disorder remains an elusive and contested presentation. Perhaps in parallel to the disorder itself, it continues to be challenging for theorists and clinicians to view the field as a whole and contain the disagreements, contradictions, and paradoxes.
This book will be of use to researchers and students of clinical psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy accompanied by a new epilogue.
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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