The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working With Trauma (Relational Perspectives Book Series)
Elizabeth Howell, Sheldon Itzkowitz
Language: English
Pages: 294
ISBN: 0415736013
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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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sensitive young boy, Barry had been profoundly hurt by his sarcastic and brutal father who kidded him mercilessly about his “klutsy” ways and his effeminate body, leaving him with deep feelings of inadequacy and shame. These painful feelings could not be entertained consciously. They were simply too painful and were dissociated. They formed the core of what might be called his “inferiority complex.” We had worked for over a year individually, and three months in group, when the following