Intensive Psychotherapy for Persistent Dissociative Processes: The Fear of Feeling Real

Winner of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation's (ISSTD) Pierre Janet Writing Award, 2015.

What really happens in dissociation.

Dissociative processes have long burdened trauma survivors with the dilemma of longing to feel "real" at the same time as they desperately want to avoid the pain that comes with that healing-a dilemma that often presents particularly acute difficulties for healing professionals. Recent clinical and neurobiological research sheds some li...