Exploring Dissociation: Definitions, Development and Cognitive Correlates (Journal of Trauma & Dissociation)

Author: Anne P. DeprincePublisher: CRC PressPaperback:ISBN 10: 0789033275ISBN 13: 978-0789033277A comprehensive, single-source guide to this growing fieldExploring 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 Dissociatio