Dissociation


Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization
Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Daily Life
The Stranger in the Mirror: Dissociation--the Hidden Epidemic
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Got Parts?: an Insider's Guide to Managing Life Successfully with Dissociative Identity Disorder (New Horizons in Therapy)
Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder
The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation
Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization Disorder and the Loss of the Self
Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation: A Practical, Integrative Approach
Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: DSM-V and Beyond
Trauma and Dissociation Informed Internal Family Systems: How to Successfully Treat C-PTSD, and Dissociative Disorders
Neurobiology and Treatment of Traumatic Dissociation: Towards an Embodied Self
Trauma Model Therapy: A Treatment Approach for Trauma Dissociation and Complex Comorbidity
Dissociation, in a general sense, refers to a rigid separation of parts of experiences, including somatic experiences, consciousness, affects, perception, identity, and memory. When there is a structural dissociation, each of the dissociated self-states has at least a rudimentary sense of "I" (Van der Hart et al., 2004). In my view, all of the environmentally based "psychopathology" or problems in living can be seen through this lens. ...more
Elizabeth F. Howell, The Dissociative Mind

Alexandra Katehakis
The process of dissociation is an elegant mechanism built into the human psychological system as a form of escape from (sometimes literally) going crazy. The problem with checking out so thoroughly is that it can leave us feeling dead inside, with little or no ability to feel our feelings in our bodies. The process of repair demands a re-association with the body, a commitment to dive into the body and feel today what we couldn’t feel yesterday because it was too dangerous.
Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

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