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ABSTRACT
We have been fortunate to have had and continue to have the opportunity to work in an area that we find very important and meaningful: working with trauma-related dissociation and the dissociative disorders. During our tenure as psychoanalysts, trauma therapists, teachers, consultants, and writers we have encountered enthusiastic, thoughtful candidates and colleagues who not uncommonly find themselves perplexed about clinical, theoretical, and diagnostic issues pertaining to those suffering from unconscionable early childhood trauma.
One reason for this dilemma has been the paucity if not complete lack of graduate and post-graduate education about this area of human experience, which is striking because abuse and trauma have such a devastating impact on the mind of the developing child. Also striking has been society’s inability and/or unwillingness to acknowledge that humankind has the capacity to inflict such cruelty on the most helpless amongst us.
We will address some of the questions that have come up over the years with some frequency (see below). We also plan to leave sufficient time to address questions we may have overlooked.
1. Why was Freud’s abandonment of his Seduction Theory so important? How did this result in confusion about dissociation?
2. How do we define trauma and what is the link between trauma and dissociation?
3. How do we understand developmental trauma?
4. What is the difference between repression and dissociation?
5. Dissociation and splitting; same or different?
6. Similarities and differences between DID v. BPD??
7. What are self-states; are they the same as alter personalities?
8. Is Depersonalization/Derealization a symptom or a Disorder
9. Dissociation v. unformulated experience; twins or cousins?
Dr. Elizabeth Howell is faculty and consultant for the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis’s Certificate Program in Trauma Studies (CPTS); faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; past co-director and faculty, International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) Professional Training Program on Dissociative Disorders, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. A prolific writer, her books include Trauma and Dissociation Informed Psychotherapy: Relational Healing and the Therapeutic Connection; Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Relational Approach; The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working with Trauma, (Howell & Itzkowitz). In 2021, Elizabeth Howell and Shelly Itzkowitz received the ISSTD Sandor Ferenczi Award for best published work in the realm of psychoanalysis related to trauma and dissociation in adults and/or children for their book Psychoanalysts, Psychologists and Psychiatrists Discuss Psychopathy and Human Evil (Routledge). Dr. Howell is also the recipient of the ISSTD Lifetime Achievement Award.
Dr. Sheldon Itzkowitz is an adjunct clinical associate professor of psychology and clinical consultant, at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis; he is a Guest Faculty member of the Eating Disorders, Compulsions, and Addictions Program, at The William Alanson White Institute; on the teaching and supervisory faculty, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies program in psychoanalysis; and the Trauma Treatment Program, The Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation (ISSTD) and an Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Society. He is in full time private practice in Manhattan where he practices psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and offers clinical consultations individually and in groups. Dr. Itzkowitz has presented his work with extremely dissociated individuals nationally and internationally. He has published several articles on the topics of trauma, dissociation and DID. Most recently, he, and Elizabeth Howell guest co-edited a special issue on, “Psychopathy & Human Evil,” for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, which will be published in book form with additional new material. They also co-edited The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working with Trauma. The book received the 2016 Media Award-Written from ISSTD, the Author Recognition Award from NIP and was nominated for the 2017 Gradiva Award.
The Manhattan Institute is a NY State approved provider of continuing education hours for: LCSW, LMSW, LCAT, LMHC and Licensed Psychologists.
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