[(Exploring Dissociation: Definitions, Development and Cognitive Correlates)] [Author: Anne P. Deprince] published on

by Anne P. DePrince

A comprehensive, single-source guide to this growing fieldExploring Dissociation provides a comprehensive overview of the development of this rapidly growing field, using classic psychological theories of attachment, learning and memory, attention, and intergeneration transmission of trauma to map out future directions for assessment, treatment, and research. The book's international contributors offer a mix of up-to-date research findings and innovative models, blending very different viewpoints in a multi-layered approach that helps define dissociation. The book examines the structure of dissociation, an attachment model of dissociation, parenting, executive functioning, peri-traumatic dissociation, and cultural perspectives.As dissociation gains greater attention in mainstream psychology and psychiatry, a variety of theories about its development have been advanced. Exploring Dissociation organizes existing theories into a single source and adds new perspectives and theories to explore three central issues of the definition, development in both function and etiology, and identifying cognitive correlates. The leadings experts in dissociation, cognition, development, and clinical science combine existing literature with advanced study, using previous research to further new viewpoints.Exploring Dissociation a bipartite model of dissociationdetachment and compartmentalizationthe function of dissociationdevelopmental etiologyetiological and intervention considerationsparenting dissociation and trauma exposuredissociation's early roots in hypnosisnonpathological dissociationcognitive strengths associated withdissociationdissociation's relationship to inhibitionand much more!Exploring Dissociation is an important professional resource for trauma and dissociation clinicians, therapists, and researchers, and a vital classroom text for graduate students in both cognitive and clinical psychology."PROVIDES IMPORTANT EVIDENCE that dissociation can no longer be thought of as a single unitary construct, with simple causes and harmful outcomes. The authors provide empirical data and theoretical arguments supporting their conclusion that dissociative symptoms represent complex phenomena with multiple causes and a range of cognitive, social, and emotional outcomes, both positive and negative. Dissociative patterns in children and in adults are examined from multiple angles, through lenses of cognitive, developmental, and clinical psychology. . . . PROVIDES IMPORTANT INSIGHTS for any researcher or clinician working with trauma or dissociation." —Kathryn Quina, PhD, Professor of Psychology & Women's Studies, University of Rhode Island"A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY. . . . The authors make crucial inroads in addressing leading edge theoretical questions with respect to dissociation, ranging from definitional issues and fundamental mechanisms, to developmental underpinnings and cognitive style and representation. At each step they challenge the field to accompany them in the investigation and elaboration of these newly charted territories." —Lisa D. Butler, PhD, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine

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First published December 18, 2006

About the author

Anne DePrince is a psychologist, distinguished university professor, and expert in intimate violence who believes change is possible. She invites you to discover your self-interest in working together to end violence against women and girls.