Elizabeth F. Howell, Ph.D., is the author of the award-winning books, The Dissociative Mind and Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Relational Approach. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation; Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; faculty, supervisor, Trauma Treatment Center, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis; faculty, National Institute for Psychotherapies, faculty, Psychotherapy Training Program: International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, and an Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society. She has written extensively and lectured nationally and internationally on various aspects of trauma and dissociation, as well as on gender and trauma/dissociation. She is in private practice in Manhattan.

Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology and Clinical Consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Guest Faculty, William Alanson White Institute, Eating Disorders, Compulsions, and Addictions Program; and on the teaching and supervisory faculty of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies Training Program in Psychoanalysis. He has presented his work on the treatment of extremely dissociated patients both nationally and internationally. He is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives and a former President of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the New York State Psychological Association. He is in private practice in Manhattan.

Introduction Elizabeth F. Howell, Ph.D. & Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D.

SECTION 1 History of Complex Trauma and Dissociative Problems in Living

1. Is Trauma-Analysis Psycho-Analysis Elizabeth F. Howell, Ph.D. & Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D.

2. From Trauma-Analysis to Psycho-Analysis And Back Again Elizabeth F. Howell, Ph.D. & Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D.

3. The Everywhereness of Trauma and the Dissociative Structuring of the Mind Elizabeth F. Howell, Ph.D. & Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D.

4. Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud, and Dissociation of the Personality: The First Codification of a Psychodynamic Depth Psychology Onno van der Hart, Ph.D.

5. The Ferenczi Paradox: His Importance in Understanding Dissociation and the Dissociation of His Importance in Psychoanalysis Margaret L. Hainer, LCSW

SECTION 2 Psychoanalytic Orientations and the Treatment of Complex Trauma Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders

6. Models of Dissociation in Freud's Work: Outcomes of Dissociation of Trauma in Theory and Practice Elizabeth F. Howell, Ph.D.

7. Jung and Dissociation: Complexes, Dreams, and the Mythopoetic Psyche Donald Kalsched, Ph.D.

8. 'A Queer Kind of Truth': Winnicott and the Uses of Dissociation Dodi Goldman, Ph.D.

9. A Kleinian Perspective on Dissociation and Trauma: Miscarriages in Symbolization Joseph Newirth, Ph.D.

10. It Never Entered My Mind Philip Bromberg, Ph.D.

11. Precarious Places: Intersubjectivity in Traumatized States Jennifer Leighton LCSW

12. Latah: An Ethnic Syndrome With Dissociative Features - A Sadomasochistic Pattern? Elizabeth Hegeman, Ph.D.

SECTION 3 Aspects of Psychoanalytic Treatment of Complex Trauma and Dissociation

13. Thoughts on Working with the Dreams of DID and DDNOS Patients Richard P. Kluft, M.D., Ph.D.

14. Who Moved My 'Swiss' Cheese? Eating Disorders And The Use Of Dissociation As An Attempt To Fill In The 'Whole' Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D.

15. A Bell Rings In The Empty Sky: Dissociative Attunement In A Resonant World Karen Hopenwasser, M.D.

16. Divide and Multiply; A Multi-Dimensional View of Dissociative Processes Wilma Bucci, Ph.D.

17. The Personal Diagnostic Crisis: The Acknowledgement of Self-States in DID Richard A. Chefetz, M.D.

18. Psychoactive Therapy Of DID: A Multiphasic Model Ira Brenner, M.D.

19. The Seeming Absence of Children With DID Valerie Sinason, Ph.D.

SECTION 4 Current Research Trends in Complex Trauma Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders

20. A Tale of Two Offenders: Why Dissociation Is Under-Diagnosed In Forensic Populations Abby Stein, Ph.D.

21. An Update On Research About the Validity, Assessment, and Treatment of DID Bethany Brand, Ph.D. & Daniel Brown B.S.

22. Speaking One's Dissociated Mind: So Should My Thoughts Be Severed From My Griefs and Woes Brian Koehler, Ph.D.