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Broken Images Broken Selves: Dissociative Narratives In Clinical Practice

by Stanley Krippner & Susan Powers

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English

Part I. The Realm of Dissociation. Dissociation in many Times and Places. History of Dissociation in Western Psychology. The Etiologies of Dissociation. Dissociation, Narrative, and Exceptional Human Experiences. Part II. Narratives of Dissociative Experience. Post-traumatic Disorder. The Body and Modernity in MPD/DID. Near-Death narratives. Inspiration, Mediumship, Surrealism. Alien Abduction Narratives. The Relationship of Dissociative Conditions to Sleep and Dreaming. Good Trips, Bad Trips. Dissociation in Terror of Death. Fantasy Proneness, Dissociation, and Narrative Construction. Part III. Metaphoric Truth and Narrative Structure. Dissociative Narratives and Veracity. The Variety of Dissociative Experience.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences, Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling, and UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact.

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  • Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “alien abduction”. Retained metadata contains “Alien abduction” in the description.

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1997-08-01Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology; Medical Entomology and ZoologyEnglishUnknown

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