Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders

Paul F. Dell, Ph.D., is co-chair of ISSD’s DSM-V Task Force. He is a former Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences of Eastern Virginia Medical School and Director of the Trauma Recovery Center in Norfolk, VA. John A. O’Neil, M.D., is a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD). He is a member of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and of the International Psycho-Analytical Association, and is certified in clinical hypnosis by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.

Part I: Dissociation: An Overview. van der Hart, Dorahy, History of the Concept of Dissociation. Braude, The Conceptual Unity of Dissociation: A Philosophical Argument. Part II: Developmental Approaches to Dissociation. Carlson, Yates, Sroufe, Dissociation and the Development of the Self. Liotti, Attachment and Dissociation. Silberg, Dallam, Dissociation in Children and Adolescents: At the Crossroads. Dutra, Bianchi, Siegel, Lyons-Ruth, The Relational Context of Dissociative Phenomenon. Barlow, Freyd, Adaptive Dissociation: Information Processing and Response to Betrayal. Schore, Attachment Trauma and the Developing Right Brain: Origins of Pathological Dissociation. Part III: Normal and Exceptional Dissociation. Dalenberg, Paulson, The Case for the Study of "Normal" Dissociation Processes. Steele, Dorahy, van der Hart, Nijenhuis, Dissociation versus Alterations in Consciousness: Related but Different Concepts. Cardena, van Dujil, Weiner, Terhune, Possession/Trance Phenomenon. Part IV: Acute Dissociation. Bryant, Is Peritraumatic Dissociation Always Pathological? Moskowitz, Evans, Peritraumatic Dissociation and Amnesia in Violent Offenders. Beere, Dissociative Perceptual Reactions: The Perceptual Theory of Dissociation. Part V: Chronic Dissociation. Dell, The Phenomena of Pathological Dissociation. Steele, van der Hart, Nijenhuis, The Theory of Trauma-Related Structural Dissociation of the Personality. Nijenhuis, Somatoform Dissociation and Somatoform Dissociative Disorders. Beere, The Self-System as Mechanism for the Dissociative Disorders: An Extension of the Perceptual Theory of Dissociation. O'Neil, Dissociative Multiplicity and Psychoanalysis. Part VI: Neurobiology of Dissociation. Brenner, Neurobiology of Dissociation: A View from the Trauma Field. Nijenhuis, den Boer, Psychobiology of Traumatization and Trauma-Related Structural Dissociation of the Personality. Simeon, Neurobiology of Depersonalization Disorder. Pain, Bluhm, Lanius, Dissociation in Patients with Chronic PTSD: Hyperactivation and Hypoactivation Patterns, Clinical and Neuroimaging Perspectives. Part VII: The DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders.Dell, The Long Struggle to Diagnose Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD): I. MPD. Dell, The Long Struggle to Diagnose Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD): II. Partial MPD. Ross, Dissociative Amnesia and Dissociative Fugue. Simeon, Depersonalization Disorder. Part VIII: Dissociation in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Waelde, Silvern, Carlson, Fairbank, Kletter, Dissociation in PTSD. Ginzburg, Butler, Saltzman, Koopman, Dissociative Reactions in PTSD. Ford, Dissociation in Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder or Disorders of Extreme Stress Not Otherwise Specified (DESNOS). Part IX: Dissociation in Borderline Personality Disorder and Substance Dependence. Zanarini, Jager-Hyman, Dissociation in Borderline Personality Disorder. Howell, Blizard, Chronic Relational Trauma Disorder: A New Diagnostic Scheme for Borderline Personality and the Spectrum of Dissociative Disorders. Somer, Opiod Use Disorder and Dissociation. Part X: Dissociation and Psychosis.Moskowitz, Read, Farrelly, Rudegeair, Williams, Are Psychotic Symptoms Traumatic in Origin and Dissociative in Kind? Sar, Ozturk, Psychotic Presentations of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Nurcombe, Scott, Jessop, Dissociative Hallucinosis. Ross, The Theory of a Dissociative Subtype of Schizophrenia. Part XI: Assessment and Measurement of Dissociation.Frankel, Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders: Clinical and Forensic Assessment with Adults. Brown, True Drama or True Trauma? Forensic Trauma Assessment and the Challenge of Detecting Malingering. Part XII: Treatment of Dissociation. Kluft, A Clinician's Understanding of Dissociation: Fragments of an Acquaintance. Gold, Seibel, Treating Dissociation: A Contextual Approach. Bromberg, Multiple Self-States, the Relational Mind, and Dissociation: A Psychoanalytic Perspective. Stern, Dissociation and Unformulated Experience: A Psychoanalytic Model of Mind. Part XIII: Toward a Clarified Understanding of Dissociation. Dell, Lawson, An Empirical Delineation of the Domain of Pathological Dissociation. Sar, Ross, A Research Agenda for the Dissociative Disorders Field. Dell, Understanding Dissociation.