Time to (Re-)integrate Dissociation into Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy?
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2026
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 248
- Category :
Trauma and Violence - Category 2 :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 98623
- ISBN 13 : 9781032909189
- ISBN 10 : 1032909188
Table of Contents
Time to (re-)integrate dissociation into psychoanalytic psychotherapy? An introduction to the special issue on dissociative disorders and psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Paul Cundy and Golan Shahar
1. The curious reader’s guide to dissociation: understanding dissociative processes, a Commentary
Richard A. Chefetz
2. When daydreaming becomes maladaptive: phenomenological and psychoanalytic perspectives
Richard A. Chefetz, Nirit Soffer-Dudek and Eli Somer
3. Dissociative identity disorder: a disorder of diagnostic and therapeutic paradoxes
Richard J. Loewenstein and Bethany Brand
4. Dissociative depression: a psychodynamic view
Vedat Şar
5. Metaphoric, metonymic and psychotic somatoform dissociation
Dana Amir
6. Self-medication, traumatic reenactments, and dissociation: a psychoanalytic perspective on the relationship between childhood trauma and substance abuse
Antonino Costanzo, Gianluca Santoro and Adriano Schimmenti
7. Addressing dissociation symptoms with trauma-focused mentalization-based treatment
E. Rüfenacht, L. Shaverin, J. Stubley, M. L. Smits, A. Bateman, P. Fonagy and P. Luyten
8. Dissociation in suicidal depression: a Reformulated Object-Relations Theory (RORT) perspective
Golan Shahar, Morgan Robison and Thomas E. Joiner
Epilogue: The Formidable Human Need to “Not Know”
Dana Amir, Richard Chefetz, Antonino Costanzo, Paul Cundy, Thomas E. Joiner, Gianluca Santoro, Morgan Robison Vedat Şar, Adriano Schimmenti, Golan Shahar, Nirit Soffer-Dudek and Eli Somer

