Time to (Re-)integrate Dissociation into Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy?

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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.

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Time to (re-)integrate dissociation into psychoanalytic psychotherapy? An introduction to the special issue on dissociative disorders and psychoanalytic psychotherapy 1. The curious reader's guide to dissociation: understanding dissociative processes, a Commentary 2. When daydreaming becomes maladaptive: phenomenological and psychoanalytic perspectives 3. Dissociative identity disorder: a disorder of diagnostic and therapeutic paradoxes 4. Dissociative depression: a psychodynamic view 5. Metaphoric, metonymic and psychotic somatoform dissociation 6. Self-medication, traumatic reenactments, and dissociation: a psychoanalytic perspective on the relationship between childhood trauma and substance abuse 7. Addressing dissociation symptoms with trauma-focused mentalization-based treatment 8. Dissociation in suicidal depression: a Reformulated Object-Relations Theory (RORT) perspective Epilogue: The Formidable Human Need to "Not Know"