Broken Images Broken Selves: Dissociative Narratives in Clinical Practice

by Stanley Krippner, Susan Powers

Practical and provocative, this book serves as a guide for those who want a deeper look into the human psyche and a more encompassing vision of the less predictable aspects of the mind.

Genres: Psychology

372 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 1997

About the author

Dr. Stanley C. Krippner Ph.D. is an executive faculty member and Professor of Psychology at Saybrook University in Oakland, California. He was previously director of the Kent State University Child Study Center, and director of the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory in Brooklyn, New York. He has written extensively on altered states of consciousness, dream telepathy, and parapsychological subjects.

Reviews

[Carole Brooks Platt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book if you are interested in the various ways in which the dissociative mind can manifest: in response to trauma, Near Death experiences, Exceptional Human experiences, creative inspiration as though from another, mediumship, the surrealistic mind, alien abduction narratives, and dreaming. The book was published in 1997, but reads as if current. I learned so much from it and I've been studying this phenomenon for over twenty years in the context of my work on poets collaborating with loved ones to access dissociative language. See my In Their Right Minds: The Lives and Shared Practices of Poetic Geniuses, if interested.