Disassociative Disorders

Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder

A Relational Approach

Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder
  • By Elizabeth F. Howell.

Published April 2011

Building on the comprehensive theoretical model of dissociation elegantly developed in The Dissociative Mind, Elizabeth Howell makes another invaluable contribution to the clinical understanding of dissociative states with Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder.…
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The Dissociative Mind

The Dissociative Mind
  • By Elizabeth F. Howell.

Published April 2008

Drawing on the pioneering work of Janet, Freud, Sullivan, and Fairbairn and making extensive use of recent literature, Elizabeth Howell develops a comprehensive model of the dissociative mind. Dissociation, for her, suffuses everyday life; it is a relationally structured survival strategy…
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