1st Edition

Broken Images Broken Selves Dissociative Narratives In Clinical Practice

By Stanley Krippner, Susan Powers Copyright 1997
    384 Pages
    by Routledge

    384 Pages
    by Routledge

    Practical and provocative, this book serves as a guide for those who want a deeper look into the human psyche and a more encompassing vision of the less predictable aspects of the mind.

    1: The Realm of Dissociation; 1: Dissociation in Many Times and Places; 2: History of Dissociation in Western Psychology; 3: The Etiologies of Dissociation; 4: Dissociation, Narrative, and Exceptional Human Experiences; 2: Narratives of Dissociative Experiences; 5: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; 6: The Body and Modernity in MPD/DID *; 7: Near-Death Narratives; 8: Inspiration, Mediumship, Surrealism; 9: Alien Abduction Narratives; 10: The Relationship of Dissociation Conditions to Sleep and Dreaming; 11: Good Trips, Bad Trips; 12: Dissociation in Terror of Death; 13: Fantasy Proneness, Dissociation, and Narrative Construction; 3: Truth and Culture; 14: Metaphoric Truth and Narrative Structure; 15: Dissociative Narratives and Veracity; 16: The Varieties of Dissociative Experience

    Biography

    Stanley Krippner, Susan Powers