Dissociation and the Dynamics of Personality - Trauma, Consciousness, and Culture

Dissociation and the Dynamics of Personality addresses the nature of personality in trauma-dissociation and proposes a dynamic understanding of persons that fundamentally challenges conventional views of the self and consciousness.

List of contents

Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Dissociation and the logic of relations
Chapter 3
Does trauma cause dissociation?
Chapter 4
Foundations of modern theories of dissociation
Chapter 5
On the nature of dissociative parts
Chapter 6
Developmental pathways to structural dissociation
Conclusion and going forward
References

About the author

Simon Boag is Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University, Australia. He has published extensively on the topics of personality psychology and psychodynamic theory and is the author of Metapsychology and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis and Freudian Repression, the Unconscious, and the Dynamics of Inhibition (both Routledge).

Summary

Dissociation and the Dynamics of Personality addresses the nature of personality in trauma-dissociation and proposes a dynamic understanding of persons that fundamentally challenges conventional views of the self and consciousness.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Boag, Boag Simon
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2024
• EAN: 9780367428976
• ISBN: 978-0-367-42897-6
• No. of pages: 142
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, MEDICAL / Emergency Medicine, Trauma & shock, Psychotherapy, Trauma and shock, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis