The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working With Traumais an invaluable and cutting edge resource providing the current theory, practice, and research on trauma and dissociation within psychoanalysis. Elizabeth HowellandSheldon Itzkowitzbring together experts in the field of dissociation and psychoanalysis, providing a comprehensive and forward-looking overview of the current thinking on trauma and dissociation. The volume contains articles on the history of concepts of trauma and dissociation, the linkage of complex trauma and dissociative problems in living, different modalities of treatment and theoretical approaches based on a new understanding of this linkage, as well as reviews of important new research. Overarching all of these is a clear explanation of how pathological dissociation is caused by trauma, and how this affects psychological organization - concepts which have often been largely misunderstood. The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysiswill be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists, trauma therapists, and students. | The Dissociative Mind In Psychoanalysis by Elizabeth Howell, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters