CONTENTS

Special Issue: Time to (Re-)integrate Dissociation into Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy?

EDITORIAL
Time to (re-)integrate dissociation into psychoanalytic psychotherapy? An introduction to the special issue on dissociative disorders and psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Paul Cundy & Golan Shahar

ESSAY
The curious reader’s guide to dissociation: understanding dissociative processes, a Commentary
Richard A. Chefetz

ARTICLES
When daydreaming becomes maladaptive: phenomenological and psychoanalytic perspectives
Richard A. Chefetz, Nirit Soffer-Dudek & Eli Somer

Dissociative identity disorder: a disorder of diagnostic and therapeutic paradoxes
Richard J. Loewenstein & Bethany Brand

Dissociative depression: a psychodynamic view
Vedat Şar

Metaphoric, metonymic and psychotic somatoform dissociation
Dana Amir

Self-medication, traumatic reenactments, and dissociation: a psychoanalytic perspective on the relationship between childhood trauma and substance abuse
Antonino Costanzo, Gianluca Santoro & Adriano Schimmenti

Addressing dissociation symptoms with trauma-focused mentalization-based treatment
E. Rüfenacht, L. Shaverin, J. Stubley, M. L. Smits, A. Bateman, P. Fonagy & P. Luyten

Dissociation in suicidal depression: a Reformulated Object-Relations Theory (RORT) perspective
Golan Shahar, Morgan Robison & Thomas E. Joiner