Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation. Evolving Perspectives on Severe Psychopathology

About the Editors

Notes on Contributors

Foreword from the Trauma Field
Chris R. Brewin

Foreword from the Psychosis Field
Brian Martindale

Introduction
Andrew Moskowitz, Martin J. Dorahy and Ingo Schäfer

Part I: Historical and conceptual perspectives

Chapter 1 Defining Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation: Historical and Contemporary Conceptions
Andrew Moskowitz, Markus Heinimaa and Onno van der Hart

Chapter 2 Historical Conceptions of Dissociative and Psychotic Disorders: From Mesmer to the 20th Century
Warwick Middleton, Martin J. Dorahy and Andrew Moskowitz

Chapter 3 Hysterical Psychosis: An Historical Review and Empirical Evaluation
Eliezer Witztum and Onno van der Hart

Chapter 4 The Role of Dissociation in the Historical Concept of Schizophrenia
Andrew Moskowitz and Gerhard Heim

Chapter 5 Ego-Fragmentation in Schizophrenia: A Severe Dissociation of Self-Experience
C. Scharfetter

Chapter 6 From Hysteria to Chronic Relational Trauma Disorder: The History of Borderline Personality Disorder and Its Connection to Trauma, Dissociation and Psychosis
Elizabeth Howell

Chapter 7 An Attachment Perspective on Schizophrenia: The Role of Disorganized Attachment, Dissociation and Mentalization
Andrew Gumley and Giovanni Liotti

Chapter 8 Childhood Experiences and Delusions: Trauma, Memory and the Double Bind
Andrew Moskowitz and Rosario Montirosso

Part II Research perspectives

Chapter 9 Childhood Trauma in Psychotic and Dissociative Disorders
James G. Scott, Colin A. Ross, Martin Dorahy, John Read and Ingo Schäfer

Chapter 10 Structural Brain Changes in Psychotic Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, and after Childhood Adversity: Similarities and Differences
Roar Fosse, Andrew Moskowitz, Ciaran Shannon and Ciaran Mulholland

Chapter 11 Dissociative Symptoms in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
Ingo Schäfer, Volkmar Aderhold, Harald J. Freyberger, Carsten Spitzer and Katrin Schroeder

Chapter 12 Psychotic Symptoms in Dissociative Disorders
Vedat Şar and Erdinç Öztürk

Chapter 13 Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: Prevalence, Phenomenology, and the Dissociation Hypothesis
Eleanor Longden, Andrew Moskowitz, Martin Dorahy and Salvador Perona-Garcelán

Chapter 14 The Value of Hypnotizability in Differentiating Dissociative from Psychotic Disorders
Joost B. C. Mertens and Eric Vermetten

Chapter 15 Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder and Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Holly K. Hamilton and Daphne Simeon

Chapter 16 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With Psychotic Features
Cherie Armour, Mark Shevlin, Ask Elklit and James Houston

Chapter 17 Memory Disturbances in Schizophrenia and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Cherrie Galletly and Alexander McFarlane

Chapter 18 Cognitive Perspectives on Dissociation and Psychosis: Differences in the Processing of Threat?
Martin J. Dorahy and Melissa J. Green

Part III Clinical perspectives

Chapter 19 Dissociative Psychosis: Clinical and Theoretical Aspects
Onno van der Hart and Eliezer Witztum

Chapter 20 Dissociative Schizophrenia: A Proposed Subtype of Schizophrenia
Colin A. Ross

Chapter 21 Advances in Clinical Assessment:  The Differential Diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder and Schizophrenia
Marlene Steinberg

Chapter 22 A Psychological Assessment Perspective on Clinical and Conceptual Distinctions between Dissociative and Psychotic Disorders
Bethany L. Brand, Helle Spindler and Renn Cannon

Chapter 23 The Role of Double Binds, Reality Testing, and Chronic Relational Trauma in the Genesis and Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
Ruth A. Blizard

Chapter 24 Accepting and Working with Voices: The Maastricht Approach
Dirk Corstens, Sandra Escher, Marius Romme and Eleanor Longden

Chapter 25 Trauma Therapy for Psychosis? Research and Clinical Experience using EMDR with Psychotic Patients
Anabel Gonzalez, Dolores Mosquera & Andrew M. Leeds

Chapter 26 Treating Dissociative and Psychotic Disorders Psychodynamically
Valerie E. Sinason and Ann-Louise S. Silver

Chapter 27 Dissociation, Psychosis and Spirituality: Whose Voices are We Hearing?
Patte Randal, Jim Geekie, Ingo Lambrecht and Melissa Taitimu

An invaluable sourcebook on the complex relationship between psychosis, trauma, and dissociation, thoroughly revised and updated.

This revised and updated second edition of Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation offers an important resource that takes a wide-ranging and in-depth look at the multifaceted relationship between trauma, dissociation and psychosis. The editors – leaders in their field – have drawn together more than fifty noted experts from around the world, to canvas the relevant literature from historical, conceptual, empirical and clinical perspectives. The result documents the impressive gains made over the past ten years in understanding multiple aspects of the interface between trauma, dissociation and psychosis.   

The historical/conceptual section clarifies the meaning of the terms dissociation, trauma and psychosis, proposes dissociation as central to the historical concepts of schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder, and considers unique development perspectives on delusions and the onset of schizophrenia. The empirical section of the text compares and contrasts psychotic and dissociative disorders from a wide range of perspectives, including phenomenology, childhood trauma, and memory and cognitive disturbances, whilst the clinical section focuses on the assessment, differential diagnosis and treatment of these disorders, along with proposals for new and novel hybrid disorders. This important resource:

• Offers extensive updated coverage of the field, from all relevant perspectives
• Brings together in one text contributions from scholars and clinicians working in diverse geographical and theoretical areas
• Helps define and bring cohesion to this new and important field
• Features nine new chapters on: conceptions of trauma, dissociation and psychosis, PTSD with psychotic features, delusions and memory, trauma treatment of psychotic symptoms, and differences between the diagnostic groups on hypnotizability, memory disturbances, brain imaging, auditory verbal hallucinations and psychological testing

Written for clinicians, researchers and academics in the areas of trauma, child abuse, dissociation and psychosis, but relevant for psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists working in any area, the revised second edition of Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation makes an invaluable contribution to this important evolving field.