Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Dissociation : an overview. History of the concept of dissociation / Onno van der Hart, Martin J. Dorahy -- The conceptual unity of dissociation : a philosophical argument / Stephen E. Braude -- Developmental approaches to dissociation. Dissociation and development of the self / Elizabeth A. Carlson, Tuppett M. Yates, L. Alan Sroufe -- Attachment and dissociation / Giovanni Liotti -- Dissociation in children and adolescents : at the crossroads / Joyanna L. Silberg, Stephanie Dallam -- The relational context of dissociative phenomena / Lissa Dutra, Ilaria Bianchi, Daniel J. Siegel, Karlen Lyons-Ruth -- Adaptive dissociation : information processing and response to betrayal / M. Rose Barlow, Jennifer J. Freyd -- Attachment trauma and the developing right brain : origins of pathological dissociation / Allan N. Schore -- Normal and exceptional dissociation. The case for the study of "normal" dissociative processes / Constance J. Dalenberg, Kelsey Paulson -- Dissociation versus alterations in consciousness : related but different concepts / Kathy Steele, Martin J. Dorahy, Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis -- Possession/trance phenomena / Etzel Cardeña, Marjolein van Duijl, Lupita A. Weiner, Devin B. Terhune -- Acute dissociation. Is peritraumatic dissociation always pathological? / Richard A. Bryant -- Peritraumatic dissociation and amnesia in violent offenders / Andrew Moskowitz, Ceri Evans -- Dissociative perceptual reactions : the perceptual theory of dissociation / Donald B. Beere -- Chronic dissociation. The phenomena of pathological dissociation / Paul F. Dell -- The theory of trauma-related structural dissociation of the personality / Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenjuis -- Somatoform dissociation and somatoform dissociative disorders / Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis -- The self-system as mechanism for the dissociative disorders : an extension of the perceptual theory of dissociation / Donald B. Beere -- Dissociative multiplicity and psychoanalysis / John A. O'Neil -- Neurobiology of dissociation. Neurobiology of dissociation : a view from the trauma field / J. Douglas Bremner -- Psychobiology of traumatization and trauma-related structural dissociation of the personality / Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis, Johan A. den Boer -- Neurobiology of depersonalization disorder / Daphne Simeon -- Dissociation in patients with chronic PTSD : hyperactivation and hypoactivation patterns, clinical and neuroimaging perspectives / Clare Pain, Robyn L. Bluhm, Ruth A. Lanius -- The DSM-IV dissociative disorders. The long struggle to diagnose multiple personality disorder (MPD) : MPD / Paul F. Dell -- The long struggle to diagnose multiple personality disorder (MPD) : partial MPD / Paul F. Dell -- Dissociative amnesia and dissociative fugue / Colin A. Ross -- Depersonalization disorder / Daphne Simeon -- Dissociation in posttraumatic stress disorder. Dissociation in PTSD / Lynn C. Waelde, Louise Silvern, Eve Carlson, John A. Fairbank, Hilit Kletter -- Dissociative reactions in PTSD / Karni Ginzburg, Lisa D. Butler, Kasey Saltzman, Cheryl Koopman -- Dissociation in complex posttraumatic stress disorder or disorders of extreme stress not otherwise specified (DESNOS) / Julian D. Ford -- Dissociation in borderline personality disorder and substance dependence. Dissociation in borderline personality disorder / Mary C. Zanarini, Shari Jager-Hyman -- Chronic relational trauma disorder : a new diagnostic scheme for borderline personality and the spectrum of dissociative disorders / Elizabeth F. Howell, Ruth A. Blizard -- Opioid use disorder and dissociation / Eli Somer -- Dissociation and psychosis. Are psychotic symptoms traumatic in origin and dissociative in kind? / Andrew Moskowitz, John Read, Susie Farrelly, Thomas Rudegeair, Ondra Williams -- Psychotic presentations of dissociative identity disorder / Vedat Șar, Erdinc̦ Öztürk -- Dissociative hallucinosis / Barry Nurcombe, James Graham Scott, Mary Ellen Jessop -- The theory of a dissociative subtype of schizophrenia / Colin A. Ross -- Assessment and measurement of dissociation. Dissociation and dissociative disorders : clinical and forensic assessment with adults / A. Steven Frankel -- True drama or true trauma? : forensic trauma assessment and the challenge of detecting malingering / Laura S. Brown -- Treatment of dissociation. A clinician's understanding of dissociation : fragments of an acquaintance / Richard P. Kluft -- Treating dissociation : a contextual approach / Steven N. Gold, Stacey L. Seibel -- Multiple self-states, the relational mind, and dissociation : a psychoanalytic perspective / Philip M. Bromberg -- Dissociation and unformulated experience : a psychoanalytic model of mind / Donnel B. Stern -- Toward a clarified understanding of dissociation. An empirical delineation of the domain of pathological dissociation / Paul F. Dell, Douglas Lawson -- A research agenda for the dissociative disorders field / Vedat Șar, Colin A. Ross -- Understanding dissociation / Paul F. Dell.

This volume integrates recent scientific and conceptual foundations of dissociation and the dissociative disorders field, defines and establishes the boundaries of current knowledge in the field, identifies the field's current points of confusion, gaps in knowledge and conjectures and sets forth a research agenda for the future.