{"product_id":"the-dissociative-mind-9780881634082","title":"The Dissociative Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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 minds 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 dissociation in which alternating dissociated self-states develop along an axis of relational trauma. Later chapters of the book examine dissociation in relation to pathological narcissism; the creation and reproduction of gender; and psychopathy.  Elegant in conception  thoughtful in tone  broad and deep in clinical applications  Howell takes the reader from neurophysiology to attachment theory to the clinical remediation of trauma states to the reality of evil. It provides a masterful overview of a literature that extends forward to the writings of Bromberg  Stern  Ryle  and others. The capstone of contemporary understandings of dissociation in relation to development and psychopathology  The Dissociative Mind will be an adventure and an education for its many clinical readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647568896053,"sku":"ByrdShop_0881634085","price":123.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780881634082.jpg?v=1781693313","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-dissociative-mind-9780881634082","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}