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When the Body Displaces the Mind: Stress, Trauma and Somatic Disease

Jean Benjamin Stora

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interesting; not very innovative 3 out of 5 stars.
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The book focuses on the mutual influence of mental and physical factors in disease. On the mental side - stress and trauma; on the physical side - most diseases, as traumatic and stressogenic conditions.
The book is well written, with abundant case-presentations.
However, the thesis is already common-knowledge, and there is scarce material on other factors, up-dated research, and recommended interventions.

Editorial Review:

At the beginning of the 21st century, an integration of the least material element of human beings, namely the psyche or, to be more precise, the psychic apparatus, into medical knowledge and clinical expertise is long overdue.

How do the mind and the body communicate? Could the mind cause diseases? This book answers these questions and proposes a comprehensive approach for doctors and psychotherapists, those who are treating somatic patients whether in hospitals or private practice. It also raises awareness among readers with an interest in new developments and fresh approaches to diseases and patients. The work demonstrates the interrelations between mind and body with reference to various scientific disciplines.

Dialogues with Forgotten Voices: Relational Perspectives on Child Abuse Trauma and the Treatment of Severe Dissociative Disorders

Harvey L. Schwartz

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Psychotherapist Harvey Schwartz is an expert in treating the severe end of the child sexual abuse continuum, where victims' experiences are so unthinkable and their adaptations to a variety of tortures so complex that the rest of us are tempted to pronounce them fictions. Throughout Dialogues With Forgotten Voices, Schwartz reveals how not only loved ones but also therapists, counselors and doctors become complicit and subvert survivors' struggles to heal. He synthesizes trauma theory and relational psychoanalysis to make sense of perpetrator, collaborator, and victim pathologies and exposes the intricate challenges of therapy for and with severely dissociative individuals. Schwartz's office is one of many stops on a little known and often misunderstood underground railroad for traumatized patients whose voices have been suppressed and negated, and for therapists struggling with the painful transference-countertransference experiences of treating them. His diverse and moving case material illuminates many aspects of treatment, and reveals how to put into practice the extensive theories that are examined throughout this articulate and scholarly work.

Exploring Dissociation: Definitions, Development and Cognitive Correlates

Anne P Deprince, Lisa Demarni Cromer

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A comprehensive, single-source guide to this growing field

Exploring Dissociation provides a comprehensive overview of the development of this rapidly growing field, using classic psychological theories of attachment, learning and memory, attention, and intergeneration transmission of trauma to map out future directions for assessment, treatment, and research. The book's international contributors offer a mix of up-to-date research findings and innovative models, blending very different viewpoints in a multi-layered approach that helps define dissociation. The book examines the structure of dissociation, an attachment model of dissociation, parenting, executive functioning, peri-traumatic dissociation, and cultural perspectives.

As dissociation gains greater attention in mainstream psychology and psychiatry, a variety of theories about its development have been advanced. Exploring Dissociation organizes existing theories into a single source and adds new perspectives and theories to explore three central issues of the field: definition, development in both function and etiology, and identifying cognitive correlates. The leadings experts in dissociation, cognition, development, and clinical science combine existing literature with advanced study, using previous research to further new viewpoints.

Exploring Dissociation examines:
a bipartite model of dissociation
detachment and compartmentalization
the function of dissociation
developmental etiology
etiological and intervention considerations
parenting dissociation and trauma exposure
dissociation's early roots in hypnosis
nonpathological dissociation
cognitive strengths associated with dissociation
dissociation's relationship to inhibition

and much more!

Exploring Dissociation is an important professional resource for trauma and dissociation clinicians, therapists, and researchers, and a vital classroom text for graduate students in both cognitive and clinical psychology.

Dissociation: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives

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Scientific and popular interest in dissociation and dissociative disorders has grown significantly in the past decade. Responding to the need for an authoritative reference on this topic, Steven Jay Lynn and Judith W. Rhue present an unusually comprehensive volume, covering the major aspects of dissociation--from the predominant models and diagnostic and treatment approaches, to significant research, clinical, and conceptual issues. Illuminating reading, Dissociation confronts many of the controversies and debates surrounding the topic. Founded on research and grounded in theory, it is an important addition to the scholarly literature.

Laying the groundwork for the rest of the book, the first section discusses current theoretical and research perspectives on dissociation. Chapters set forth results of the latest research alongside actual clinical examples. In the second section, chapters present practical information designed to assist clinicians in diagnosing and treating clients suffering from dissociative disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, and the consequences of sexual victimization and cult involvement. Fostering an appreciation for the ways in which social and cultural factors affect the expression of dissociative symptoms, this section also illustrates the ways in which transference and countertransference can affect dissociative symptoms and the treatment of multiple personality disorder, (MPD).

The third section, on current issues and controversies, provides invaluable information for all clinicians who encounter clients with dissociative disorders. Chapters probe such questions as whether trauma causes dissociative pathology, whether and under what circumstances pseudomemories of child abuse can be created, the relationship between conversion and dissociative disorders and their respective placement in diagnostic classification schemes, and areas of possible rapprochement between those who believe in MPD and those who are skeptical of the disorder.

Offering the most significant contribution to scholarly coverage of dissociation to date, this highly provocative volume offers valuable insights for the clinician, as well as many new theories, hypotheses, and syntheses of the research literature. As such, Dissociation will be welcomed by anyone who encounters dissociative disorders in clinical practice. It is also a useful primary text for researchers and students of psychotherapy in a broad range of helping professions.

Trauma, Dissociation, And Impulse Dyscontrol In Eating Disorders (Brunner/Mazel Eating Disorders Monograph Series, No. 9)

Johan Vanderlinden, Walter Vandereycken

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New Insights 5 out of 5 stars.
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Book cites new studies or otherwise offers fresh insights. I've been looking for myself in these books esp. this past year because I don't know what happened to me, and/or what happened to me as a result of what happened to me. This book makes some points that were new to me - that IGNORING a report of child sexual abuse is more likely to lead to borderline personality disorder. I already knew of the link between abuse & BPD - ignoring report being linked is a whole nuther level. Also, just a little statement in the book linking nightmares to anxiety - duh! But so much more helpful than all my googling of (adult) nightmares which netted me nothing except "that's whatchyer thinkin' 'bout" - yeah, thanks, so helpful. Again, this takes it to another level - even if you can't solve all the things you're having nightmares about, maybe you can better deal with the anxiety, but do be careful of your meds. The part about family's negative reaction to therapy and effect for client was so CLEAR and so supportive, I made a breakthrough (on a LONG-standing issue with nary a clue, in therapy for 30 years - when do I get my gold watch?!) just reading it.

Editorial Review:

This volume offers a realistic discussion of the complexity of the treatment of traumatic and dissociative experiences in eating disorders. The authors investigate critical issues concerning contraindications and the pitfalls of treatment while reflecting on the longterm outcomes of treatment.

The Sword of Laban: Joseph Smith, Jr., and the Dissociated Mind

William D., M.D. Morain

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Wow 5 out of 5 stars.
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One of the most interesting books I've read this year. Clearly not the "end all" in Joseph Smith bigraphical material but a major addition to naturalistic studies of Joseph's creative mind. I had a very hard time putting this book down. And a harder time not talking about it after. Not a "warm fuzzy" book but a very thought provoking read. I think Morain is uniquely qualified as a plastic surgeon on children to write about the several operations on Joseph's leg and how that might have effected him later in life.

My best to he Author

I'd like to see him write a book on........... 1 out of 5 stars.
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some of the stalwarts of the Protestant Reformation:

Maybe he should begin with Martin Luther who advised the use of the sword to exterminate the Anabaptists whose biggest "sins" were not believing in infant baptism, and, as concientious objectors, refusing to serve in the military. By 1530 over 2000 Anabaptists had suffered cruel and inhuman deaths. Is this not insanity? From several encyclopedias we learn that Luther rejected all who disagreed with him and branded them as heretics. He was the victim of an interior struggle that made him writhe in the throes of racking anxiety, distressing doubts and agonizing reproaches of conscience. He also had an irrepressible outbreak of sensuality which assailed him with unbridled fury, to which was added the intensifying stimulus of his imprudent gratification of his appetite for eating and drinking. In addition to his horror, his temptations, moral and spiritual, becamme vivid realities; satanic manifestations were frequent and alarming. And this author has the unmitigated gall to accuse Joseph Smith of a mental disorder?

Then there's that "wonderful" relationship between Luther and Ulrich Zwingli. Zwingli, like Luther, resorted to use of force, submission, and death of his opponents, committing the same atrocities for which he condemned the papacy of committing. Zwingli was slain at age 47. The Catholics quartered his body and burned it on a dung pyre. Luther remarked that it was "the judgement of heaven on a heathen....." Sweet Christian love, huh? Joseph Smith never had such 'love' for those who disagreed with him.

How about John Calvin who hated everyone who disagreed with him and subjected them to reproof, excommunication, banishment, and death. Calvin practiced strict non-toleration practices and his controls over his "subjects" of his "City of God", as he called Geneva. There he forced his religion on all the inhabitants of Geneva. Between 1542 and 1564 there were 76 banishments and 58 executions. You, dear reader, might want to read upon the murder of Michael Severtus, which Calvin was responsible for http://www.bcbsr.com/topics/servetus.html Now, that's a mental case.

I could go on and on about the witch hunts, burnings at the stake, burning of homes, persecution of anyone who disagreed with various Protestant sects, and so on.... These are historical facts, not some rantings by a wacked-out mental case. Check it out before you say this review didn't help you. Mormon-bashers beware, the truth will out....

Editorial Review:

A psychological study of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of Mormonism. For psychiatric clinicians who are currently undergoing a major transition in their theoretical and practical approach to psychiatric illness. DNLM: Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844.

Repression and Dissociation: Implications for Personality Theory, Psychopathology and Health (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and De)

Jerome L. Singer

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This book features contributions from twenty six leading experts that survey the theoretical, historical, methodological, empirical, and clinical aspects of repression and the repressive personality style, from both psychoanalytic and cognitive psychological perspectives.

"Rarely does a volume present contributions on a controversial topic from such distinguished clinicians and experimentalists . . . . There is something of interest in this volume for almost anyone involved in experimental cognitive psychology and psychiatry."—Carroll E. Izard, Contemporary Psychology

"The concept of repression is the cornerstone of psychoanalytic theory. . . . This is a delightful book, unusually well-written. . . . Recommended."—Choice

"Readable, thorough, wide ranging and consistently interesting. . . . A testament to the continuing power of psychodynamic ideas when faced with individual psychopathology."—Sue Llewelyn, Psychologist

"Singer has brought together some of the best empirical research in the areas of unconscious mental activity and repression—that is at once interdisciplinary and scholarly."—Howard D. Lerner, International Review of Psycho-analysis

"A rich reference, replete with summaries and citations, covering a variety of topics related to the psychology of repression and dissociation. . . . A thoughtful, detailed and eclectic discussion of the scientific and theoretical basis of repression and dissociation."—Steven Lazrove, M.D., American Journal of Psychiatry

Divided Consciousness: Multiple Controls in Human Thought and Action (Wiley series in behaviour)

Ernest Ropiequet Hilgard

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This work re-examines dissociation according to a new interpretation that recognizes historical roots without requiring commitment to the classical theory. It includes coverage of possession state, multiple personalities, amnesia and dreams.