Trauma and Dissociation Informed Psychotherapy by Elizabeth Howell - ISBN: 9780393713732
Hardcover
Trauma’s not the whole story: Dissociation fractures self, hindering healing.

Trauma and Dissociation Informed Psychotherapy

Relational Healing and the Therapeutic Connection

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  • Hardcover

    264 pages

  • Release Date

    29 May 2020

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Summary

A fresh look at the importance of dissociation in understanding trauma.

A new model of therapeutic action, one that heals trauma and dissociation, is overtaking the mental- health field. It is not just trauma, but the dissociation of the self, that causes emotional pain and difficulties in functioning. This book discusses how people are universally subject to trauma, what trauma is, and how to understand and work with normative as well as extreme dissociation.

In this new mode…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780393713732
ISBN-10:0393713733
Author:Elizabeth Howell
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Imprint:WW Norton & Co
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:264
Release Date:29 May 2020
Weight:577g
Dimensions:244mm x 163mm x 23mm
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Critics Review

At the heart of Elizabeth Howell’s courageous thesis is the question: can contemporary psychoanalysis adapt to trauma and dissociation informed psychotherapy? She pulls no punches in offering scholarly yet confronting responses to offer a belated resolution to the 100-year trauma debate raging between Freudian ‘repression’ and Janetian ‘dissociation.’ Therapists and patients alike will greatly benefit from Dr. Howell’s parsimonious definition of trauma as ‘that which causes dissociation.’ This radical reconceptualization has powerfully reshaped the future direction of trauma therapy as her clinically based discussions amply illustrate.–Dr. George Halasz, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and child and adolescent psychiatrist

About The Author

Elizabeth Howell

Elizabeth Howell, PhD, teaches at several institutes and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. She has written three previous books on trauma, dissociation, and attachment, and over thirty-five articles. She lives in New York City.

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