Book description
In the 100 years since Eugen Bleuler unveiled his concept of
schizophrenia, which had dissociation at its core, the essential
connection between traumatic life events, dissociative processes and
psychotic symptoms has been lost.
Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation
is the first book to attempt to reforge this connection, by presenting
challenging new findings linking these now disparate fields, and by
comprehensively surveying, from a wide range of perspectives, the
complex relationship between dissociation and psychosis.
A
cutting-edge sourcebook, Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation
brings together highly-respected professionals working in the
psychosis field with renowned clinicians and researchers from the
fields of traumatic stress, dissociation and the dissociative
disorders, and will be of interest to those working with or studying
psychotic or dissociative disorders, as well as trauma-related
conditions such as borderline personality disorder or complex
post-traumatic stress disorder. It makes an invaluable contribution to
the burgeoning literature on severe mental disorders and serious life
events. The book has three sections:
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Connecting trauma and dissociation to psychosis - an
exploration of the links between trauma, dissociation and
psychosis from a wide range of historical and theoretical
perspectives.
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Comparing psychotic and dissociative disorders - a
presentation of empirical and clinical perspectives on
similarities and differences between the two sets of disorders.
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Assessing and treating hybrid and boundary conditions -
consideration of existing and novel diagnostic categories, such as
borderline personality disorder and dissociative psychosis, that
blend or border dissociative and psychotic disorders, along with
treatment perspectives emphasising humanistic and existential
concerns.
