The Dissociative MindDrawing on the pioneering work of Janet, Freud, Sullivan, and Fairbairn and making extensive use of recent literature, Elizabeth Howell develops a comprehensive model of the dissociative mind. Dissociation, for her, suffuses everyday life; it is a relationally structured survival strategy that arises out of the mind’s need to allow interaction with frightening but still urgently needed others. For therapists dissociated self-states are among the everyday fare of clinical work and gain expression in dreams, projective identifications, and enactments. Pathological dissociation, on the other hand, results when the psyche is overwhelmed by trauma and signals the collapse of relationality and an addictive clinging to dissociative solutions. |
Contents
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Unity and Multiplicity | 38 |
Janet Freud Ferenczi and Fairbairn | 49 |
Sullivan Bromberg Davies and FrawleyODea and Stern | 92 |
Ryles Multiple Self States Model Van der Hart Nijenhuis and Steeles Theory of the Structural Dissociation of the Personality Hilgards Neodissociation... | 121 |
6 Attachment Theory and Dissociation | 147 |
A Different View of Splitting | 161 |
9 Concepts of Psychic Processes Defense and Personality Organization | 194 |
A Relational Aspect of Dissociation | 219 |
The Role of Trauma and Dissociation in the Creation and Reproduction of Gender | 229 |
When the Terrible Is True Not Only Are We Not Safe But More Important We Can No Longer Imagine | 248 |
Endnotes | 262 |
References | 270 |
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Blind Foresight | 178 |