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Time to (Re-)integrate Dissociation into Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy? book cover

1st Edition

Time to (Re-)integrate Dissociation into Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy?

Edited By Paul Cundy, Golan Shahar Copyright 2025
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge
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This book brings together contributions from leading authors in the field of dissociation to facilitate the pursuit of integrative clinical scholarship, connecting psychoanalytic thinking and practice with dissociation research and treatment. Dissociation is not merely altered consciousness, it is an attack on consciousness: on memory, identity, and goal-directed action. The attempts by early... Read more

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

 

 

Biography

Paul Cundy is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychodynamic Psychotherapist. He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Leicester, UK, and Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

Golan Shahar is Professor of Clinical Health Psychology, Zlotowsky Chair of Neuropsychology, and Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev where he also heads the Stress, Self & Health (STREALTH) research lab. He is also Adjunct Professor of Child Study and Adult Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and the former International Editor of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

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