Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders

Abstract

Part I: Dissociation: An Overview. van der Hart, Dorahy, History of the Concept of Dissociation. Braude, The Conceptual Unity of Dissociation: A Philosophical Argument. Part II: Developmental Approaches to Dissociation. Carlson, Yates, Sroufe, Dissociation and the Development of the Self. Liotti, Attachment and Dissociation. Silberg, Dallam, Dissociation in Children and Adolescents: At the Crossroads. Dutra, Bianchi, Siegel, Lyons-Ruth, The Relational Context of Dissociative Phenomenon. Barlow, Freyd, Adaptive Dissociation: Information Processing and Response to Betrayal. Schore, Attachment Trauma and the Developing Right Brain: Origins of Pathological Dissociation. Part III: and Exceptional Dissociation. Dalenberg, Paulson, The Case for the Study of Normal Dissociation Processes. Steele, Dorahy, van der Hart, Nijenhuis, Dissociation versus Alterations in Consciousness: Related but Different Concepts. Cardena, van Dujil, Weiner, Terhune, Possession/Trance Phenomenon. Part IV: Acute Dissociation. Bryant, Is Peritraumatic Dissociation Always Pathological? Moskowitz, Evans, Peritraumatic Dissociation and Amnesia in Violent Offenders. Beere, Dissociative Perceptual Reactions: The Perceptual Theory of Dissociation. Part V: Chronic Dissociation. Dell, The Phenomena of Pathological Dissociation. Steele, van der Hart, Nijenhuis, The Theory of Trauma-Related Structural Dissociation of the Personality. Nijenhuis, Somatoform Dissociation and Somatoform Dissociative Disorders. Beere, The…