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