1st Edition

Broken Images Broken Selves Dissociative Narratives In Clinical Practice

By Stanley Krippner, Susan Powers Copyright 1997
384 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

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.

1: The Realm of Dissociation; 1: Dissociation in Many Times and Places; 2: History of Dissociation in Western Psychology; 3: The Etiologies of Dissociation; 4: Dissociation, Narrative, and Exceptional Human Experiences; 2: Narratives of Dissociative Experiences; 5: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; 6: The Body and Modernity in MPD/DID *; 7: Near-Death Narratives; 8: Inspiration, Mediumship, Surrealism; 9: Alien Abduction Narratives; 10: The Relationship of Dissociation Conditions to Sleep and Dreaming; 11: Good Trips, Bad Trips; 12: Dissociation in Terror of Death; 13: Fantasy Proneness, Dissociation, and Narrative Construction; 3: Truth and Culture; 14: Metaphoric Truth and Narrative Structure; 15: Dissociative Narratives and Veracity; 16: The Varieties of Dissociative Experience

Biography

Stanley Krippner, Susan Powers