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Building on the comprehensive theoretical model of dissociation elegantly developed in The Dissociative Mind, Elizabeth Howell makes another invaluable contribution to the clinical understanding of dissociative states with Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder. Howell, working within the realm of relational psychoanalysis, explicates a multifaceted appr
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Paperback, 330 pages
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April 21st 2011
by Routledge
(first published April 7th 2011)
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Possibly the most important book on trauma I've read.
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Janet: maladaptive behaviours were vital for survival at their time of development (trauma), but are actively harmful now (ptsd).
We consist of plural identities that in a healthy environment share information amongst one another, giving us the sense of a singular self, bodily/psychic autonomy. Trauma is the dissociation of these identities from one another.
All trauma involves dissociation (disconnections between identities, which l ...more
Touches on:
Janet: maladaptive behaviours were vital for survival at their time of development (trauma), but are actively harmful now (ptsd).
We consist of plural identities that in a healthy environment share information amongst one another, giving us the sense of a singular self, bodily/psychic autonomy. Trauma is the dissociation of these identities from one another.
All trauma involves dissociation (disconnections between identities, which l ...more

This book is INVALUABLE for treating DID. It’s straightforward, well-organized, and easily the best resource I’ve found on DID. I can’t understand why it’s out of print. Used copies are available but expensive. However, if you’ve just started working with DID patients and are in need of guidance, it’s well worth the money.
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A psychoanalyst and traumatologist who specializes in the treatment of dissociative disorders, Elizabeth Howell, Ph.D., is Associate Editor of the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation and Co-Director of the Dissociative Disorders Psychotherapy Training Program of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation. Dr. Howell is a faculty member of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies
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“Does the person report having had the experience of meeting people she does not know but who seem to know her, perhaps by a different name? Often, those with DID are thought by others to be lying because different parts will say different things which the host has no knowledge of.”
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