Includes bibliographical references and index.

Is trauma-analysis psycho-analysis / Elizabeth F. Howell & Sheldon Itzkowitz -- From trauma-analysis to psycho-analysis and back again / Elizabeth F. Howell & Sheldon Itzkowitz -- The everywhereness of trauma and the dissociative structuring of the mind / Elizabeth F. Howell & Sheldon Itzkowitz -- Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud, and dissociation of the personality : the first codification of a pychodynamic depth psychology / Onno van der Hart -- The Ferenczi paradox : his importance in understanding dissociation and the dissociation of his importance in psychoanalysis / Margaret L. Hainer -- Models of dissociation in Freud's work : outcomes of dissociation of trauma in theory and practice / Elizabeth F. Howell -- Jung and dissociation : complexes, dreams, and the mythopoetic psyche / Donald Kalsched -- "A queer kind of truth" : Winnicott and the uses of dissociation / Dodi Goldman -- A Kleinian perspective on dissociation and trauma : miscarriages in symbolization / Joseph Newirth -- It never entered my mind / Philip Bromberg -- Precarious places : intersubjectivity in traumatized states / Jennifer Leighton -- Latah : an ethnic syndrome with dissociative features : a sadomasochistic pattern? / Elizabeth Hegeman -- Thoughts on working with the dreams of DID and DDNOS patients / Richard P. Kluft -- Who moved my "Swiss" cheese? : eating disorders and the use of dissociation as an attempt to fill in the "whole" / Jean Petrucelli -- A bell rings in the empty sky : dissociative attunement in a resonant world / Karen Hopenwasser -- Divide and multiply : a multi-dimensional view of dissociative processes / Wilma Bucci -- The personal diagnostic crisis : the acknowledgement of self-states in DID / Richard A. Chefetz -- Psychoactive therapy of DID : a multiphasic model / Ira Brenner -- The seeming absence of children with DID / Valerie Sinason -- A tale of two offenders : why dissociation is under-diagnosed in forensic populations / Abby Stein -- An update on research about the validity, assessment, and treatment of DID / Bethany Brand & Daniel Brown -- Speaking one's dissociated mind : so should my thoughts be severed from my griefs and woes / Brian Koehler.

An invaluable and cutting edge resource providing the current theory, practice, and research on trauma and dissociation within psychoanalysis. Elizabeth Howell and Sheldon Itzkowitz bring together experts in the field, providing a comprehensive and forward-looking overview of the current thinking on trauma and dissociation. The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working With Trauma is an invaluable and cutting edge resource providing the current theory, practice, and research on trauma and dissociation within psychoanalysis. Elizabeth Howell and Sheldon Itzkowitz bring together experts in the field of dissociation and psychoanalysis, providing a comprehensive and forward-looking overview of the current thinking on trauma and dissociation. The volume contains articles on the history of concepts of trauma and dissociation, the linkage of complex trauma and dissociative problems in living, different modalities of treatment and theoretical approaches based on a new understanding of this linkage, as well as reviews of important new research. Overarching all of these is a clear explanation of how pathological dissociation is caused by trauma, and how this affects psychological organization -- concepts which have often been largely misunderstood. The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists, trauma therapists, and students.

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