Psychosis Trauma and Dissociation

Author(s): Andrew Moskowitz

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The connection between dissociation and psychosis is of essential importance to the practice of psychotherapy. This book focuses exclusively on the relationship between dissociation and psychosis and is an invaluable reference work for researchers, clinicians and interested professionals hoping to understand this complicated relationship. "Dissociation and Psychosis" covers the literature from historical, empirical and clinical perspectives. In the historical section, contributors review the changing definitions of dissociation and psychosis over the past 150 years, explore the diagnostic category 'hysterical psychosis', and consider whether the concept of schizophrenia has its roots in early dissociation theory.In the empirical section, research is reviewed about the overlapping phenomenology of psychotic and dissociative disorders. The clinical section focuses on the efficacy of psychotherapy in persons with both dissociative and psychotic disorders, and the reliability of distinctions between diagnoses made on the basis of questionnaires and structured interviews. The extent to which psychotic symptoms can be understood from a dissocialise perspective is also covered.

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"This book is an excellent source book for historians, researchers and clinicians in the field of psychiatry interested in learning more about how the concepts of dissociation, trauma and psychosis inform one another." (Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, January 2010) "This very interesting book not only connects traumatic experiences with dissociative and psychotic consequences, but clarifies the research into the nature of these links." (Psychosis, July 2009) "This useful and interesting book is well written and lays out its arguments for the connections between trauma/dissociation/psychosis clearly and cogently." (Doody's, April 2009)

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Introduction (Andrew Moskowitz, Ingo Schafer and Martin Dorahy). PART 1: CONNECTING TRAUMA AND DISSOCIATION TO PSYCHOSIS: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES . 1. Historical conceptions of dissociation and psychosis: 19th and early 20th century perspectives on severe psychopathology (Warwick Middleton, Martin Dorahy, and Andrew Moskowitz). 2. Hysterical psychosis: A historical review and empirical evaluation (Eliezer Witztum and Onno van der Hart). 3. Association and dissociation in the historical concept of schizophrenia (Andrew Moskowitz). 4. Ego-fragmentation in schizophrenia: A severe dissociation of self-experience (Christian Scharfetter). 5. Delusional atmosphere, the psychotic prodrome, and de-contextualised memories (Andrew Moskowitz, Lynn Nadel, Peter Watts and W. Jake Jacobs). 6. The complex overlap between dissociation and schizotypy (Timo Giesbrecht and Harald Merckelbach). 7. Pierre Janet on hallucinations, paranoia, and schizophrenia (Andrew Moskowitz, Gerhard Heim, Isabelle Saillot, and Vanessa Beavan). 8. From hysteria to chronic relational trauma disorder: The history of borderline personality disorder and its links with dissociation and psychosis (Elizabeth Howell). 9. An attachment perspective on schizophrenia: the role of disorganised attachment, dissociation, and mentalization (Giovanni Liotti and Andrew Gumley). PART 2: COMPARING PSYCHOTIC AND DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS: RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES. 10. Childhood trauma in psychotic and dissociative disorders (Ingo Schafer, Colin Ross, and John Read). 11. Dissociative symptoms in schizophrenia (Ingo Schafer, Volkmar Aderhold, Harald Freyberger, and Carsten Spitzer). 12. Psychotic symptoms in complex dissociative disorders (Vedat Sar and Erdinc Ozturk). 13. Advances in assessment: The differential diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia (Marlene Steinberg and Harold Siegel). 14. Cognitive perspectives on dissociation and psychosis: Differences in the processing of threat (Martin Dorahy and Melissa Green). 15. Depersonalisation disorder and schizotypal personality disorder (Daphne Simeon and Holly Hamilton). 16. Contributions of traumatic stress studies to the neurobiology of dissociation and dissociative disorders: Implications for schizophrenia (Eric Vermetten, Ruth Lanius, and J. Douglas Bremner). 17. Treating dissociative and psychotic disorders psychodynamically (Valerie Sinason and Ann-Louise Silver). PART 3: ASSESSING AND TREATING HYBRID AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS: CLINICAL AND EXISTENTIAL PERSPECTIVES. 18. Dissociative psychosis: Clinical and theoretical aspects (Onno van der Hart and Eliezer Witztum). 19. Trauma-based dissociative hallucinosis: Diagnosis and treatment (Barry Nurcombe, James Scott and Mary Jessop). 20. Dissociative schizophrenia (Colin Ross). 21. The role of double binds, reality testing, and chronic relational trauma in the genesis and treatment of borderline personality disorder (Ruth Blizard). 22. Pharmacotherapy in the collaborative treatment of trauma-induced dissociation and psychosis (Thom Rudegeair and Susie Farrelly). 23. Accepting and working with voices: The Maastricht approach (Dirk Corstens, Marius Romme and Sandra Escher). 24. Dissociation, psychosis, and spirituality: Whose voices are we hearing? (Patte Randal, Jim Geekie, Ingo Lambrecht and Melissa Taitimu).

General Fields

  • : 9780470511732
  • : Unknown
  • : UNKNOWN
  • : November 2008
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Andrew Moskowitz
  • : Hardback
  • : 616.89
  • : 380