Global Perspectives on Dissociative Disorders
Dissociative disorders are one of the psychiatric consequences of childhood psychological trauma. While oppression is an aspect of traumatic conditions, dissociation undermines resistance to oppression throughout a persons lifespan. Neither oppression nor dissociation are restricted to particular cultures, and both can affect individuals as well as societies.
This collection engages with the universality of dissociative disorders and their close relationship to oppression. The chapters cover extreme examples such as ongoing incest in adulthood, children and adults forced to kill others, and abusive states in interrogation. Further subjects examined include the utilization of dissociation to maintain societal oppression, the oppressive conditions of asylum seekers and the consequences of oppression as they are dealt with in psychotherapy. The considers how a paedophile pandering network employed multi-layered oppression to prevent the public becoming aware of the widespread and organised abuse of children.
This book will engender interactions between trauma investigators those whose approach is close clinical observation, those who use instruments to survey groups of individuals, those whose research takes the form of investigative journalism and those who examine the truth embedded or hidden in documents created for multiple, and at times, disturbing political purposes.
Portions of this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation. It also includes material from other sources.
Vedat ar, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry in Istanbul University, Turkey. He has previously been president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) and is currently president of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS). He has published numerous studies on adult psychiatric consequences of childhood trauma covering diagnosis, epidemiology, neurobiology and treatment. He has been awarded the Cornelia Wilbur Award and Morton Prince Award for Scientific Achievement for his work on dissociative disorders.
Warwick Middleton, MBBS, FRANZCP, MD, is Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, at the University of New England, Armidale, USA, and at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He is Associate Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Australia. Professor Middleton has made substantial and ongoing research contributions to the fields of bereavement, trauma, dissociation and psychotherapy. He currently chairs the Cannan Institute and is Director of the Trauma and Dissociation Unit, Belmont Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, and is a Board member and Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
Martin Dorahy, PhD, DClinPysch, is Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation. He has published widely on dissociative disorders and complex trauma. He maintains a private practice focused on adult outcomes of complex childhood trauma.
Global Perspectives on
Dissociative Disorders
Individual and Societal Oppression
Edited by
Vedat ar, Warwick Middleton
and Martin Dorahy
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Contents
Vedat ar, Warwick Middleton and Martin Dorahy
Vedat ar and Erdinc Ozturk
Frank W. Putnam
Warwick Middleton
Warwick Middleton
Colin A. Ross, Elizabeth Schroeder and Laura Ness
Elizabeth Hegeman
Denise H. Sandole and Carl F. Auerbach
Nel Draijer and Pauline Van Zon
Adah Sachs
Louise Newman
Nick Bryant
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, volume 14, issues 2 and 3 (2013). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Stimulus Deprivation and Overstimulation as Dissociogenic Agents in Postmodern Oppressive Societies
Vedat ar and Erdinc Ozturk
Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, volume 14, issue 2 (2013) pp. 198212
The Role of Abusive States of Being in Interrogation
Frank W. Putnam
Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, volume 14, issue 2 (2013) pp. 147158
Ongoing Incestuous Abuse During Adulthood
Warwick Middleton
Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, volume 14, issue 3 (2013) pp. 251272
Dissociation and Symptoms of Culture-Bound Syndromes in North America: A Preliminary Study
Colin A. Ross, Elizabeth Schroeder and Laura Ness
Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, volume 14, issue 2 (2013) pp. 224235
Ethnic Syndromes as Disguise for Protest Against Colonialism: Three Ethnographic Examples
Elizabeth Hegeman
Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, volume 14, issue 2 (2013) pp. 138146
Dissociation and Identity Transformation in Female Survivors of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: A Qualitative Research Study
Denise H. Sandole and Carl F. Auerbach
Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, volume 14, issue 2 (2013) pp. 127137
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy with Former Child Soldiers: Meeting the Murderous Self
Nel Draijer and Pauline Van Zon
Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, volume 14, issue 2 (2013) pp. 170183
Boundary Modifications in the Treatment of People with Dissociative Disorders: A Pilot Study
Adah Sachs
Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, volume 14, issue 2 (2013) pp. 159169
