Elizabeth F HowellUnderstanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder
A Relational Approach
A psychoanalyst and traumatologist who specializes in the treatment of dissociative disorders, Elizabeth Howell, Ph.D., is Associate Editor of the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation and Co-Director of the Dissociative Disorders Psychotherapy Training Program of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation. Dr. Howell is a faculty member of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies Trauma Studies Program and an adjunct associate professor in the psychology department of New York University. She has written and lectured widely on various aspects of trauma and dissociation. The author of The Dissociative Mind (Analytic Press, 2005), she has been awarded the Print Media Award for her work.
Introduction. Part I: Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder. The
Lives and Psychotherapy of Three People with DID. The Dynamic Unconscious
and the Dissociative Structure of the Mind. "The 'We' of Me:" Personality
Organization in DID. DID is a Trauma Disorder. Dissociated Self-states,
Trauma, and Disorganized Attachment. Some Neurobiological Correlates of the
Structure and Psychodynamics of Dissociated Self-states. Dissociated
Self-states: Creation and Contexualization. Part II: Treating Dissociative
Identity Disorder. Assessment and Diagnosis of DID. Phase-oriented
Treatment. Facilitating Co-consciousness and Co-participation in the
Treatment. Working with Persecutory Alters and Identification with the
Aggressor. The Therapeutic Relationship: Multiple Dimensions of
Co-construction. Dreams in DID. Suicidality. Comorbidity and Seeming
Comorbidity: Problematic Outcomes of Severe and Rigid Dissociative
Structuring of the Mind.
