Description
1. Introduction 2. The Nature and Effects of Childhood Trauma and Maltreatment 3. Influential Factors and Common Themes in Maltreatment Outcomes 4. Introduction to Dissociation 5. Pathological Dissociation 6. Trauma, Dissociation, and Memory 7. Toward a Model of Pathological Dissociation 8. The Discrete Behavioral States Model 9. The Developmental Basis of Dissociation 10. Altered States in Everyday Life 11. Dissociative Presentations: Clinical Vignettes 12. Clinical Phenomenology and Diagnosis 13. Philosophy and Principles of Treatment 14. Individual Therapy 15. Dissociative Families and Out-of-Home Placements 16. Psychopharmacology
Frank W. Putnam, MD, is a leading authority on dissociative disorders. Trained as a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, he is Chief of Developmental Traumatology at the National Institute of Mental Health and directs clinical research on the effects of maltreatment, community violence, and other types of trauma across the lifespan.