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What is The Dissociative Mind about?

Drawing on the pioneering work of Janet, Freud, Sullivan, and Fairbairn and making extensive use of recent literature, Elizabeth Howell develops a comprehensive model of the dissociative mind.  Dissociation, for her, suffuses everyday life; it is a relationally structured survival strategy that arises out of the mind’s need to allow interaction with frightening but still urgently needed others.  For therapists dissociated self-states are among the everyday fare of clinical work and gain expression in dreams, projective identifications, and enactments.  Pathological dissociation, on the other hand, results when the psyche is overwhelmed by trauma and signals the collapse of relationality and an addictive clinging to dissociative solutions. Howell examines the relationship of segregated models of attachment, disorganized attachment, mentalization, and defensive exclusion  to dissociative processes in general and to particular kinds of dissociative solutions.  Enactments are reframed as unconscious procedural ways of being with others that often result in segregated systems of attachment.  Clinical phenomena associated with splitting are assigned to a model of “attachment-based dissoc

Author

Elizabeth F. Howell

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780881634082

Subjects

Psychology, Medical, Social Science

Rating

4.3 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14