Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis

<p><em>The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working With Trauma</em> is an invaluable and cutting edge resource providing the current theory practice and research on trauma and dissociation within psychoanalysis. <strong>Elizabeth Howell </strong>and<strong> Sheldon Itzkowitz </strong>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. </p><p>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.<b> </b></p><p><em>The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis </em>will be essential reading for psychoanalysts psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists trauma therapists and students. </p>