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The Trinity of Trauma: Ignorance, Fragility, and Control is structured as a trilogy. This book includes the first two parts: Volume I, The Evolving Concept of Trauma, and Volume II, The Concept and Facts of Dissociation in Trauma, which are predominantly conceptual, theoretical, and empirical in nature. Volume I aims to overcome conceptual flaws that have plagued the trauma field to date. It proposes new definitions of trauma and derivative concepts as well as a dimension of trauma-related disorders. It suggests that individuals and their environment constitute, depend on, and are relative to each other. Volume I unites two groups of trauma-related disorders that were previously contrasted in psychiatric history under various names such as "melancholia" versus "hysteria," "traumatic neurosis" versus "traumatic hysteria," and "posttraumatic stress disorder" versus "dissociative disorders." It also mends the "dissociation" of dissociative and conversion disorders. Volume II analyzes and defines the concepts of "personality," "self," "dissociation in trauma," and "dissociative parts." It explores and documents the biopsychosocial features of different prototypical dissociative parts in traumatized individuals. Important features of these parts also characterize other players in traumatization, stretching from perpetrators to society at large.
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$ © 2015, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783525402474 — ISBN E-Book: 9783647402475 © 2015, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783525402474 — ISBN E-Book: 9783647402475 Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis The Trinity of Trauma: Ignorance, Fragility, and Control The Evolving Concept of Trauma / The Concept and Facts of Dissociation in Trauma Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht © 2015, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783525402474 — ISBN E-Book: 9783647402475 With 26 figures and 12 tables. Bibliographical information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data available online: http://dnb.d-nb.de. ISBN 978-3-525-40247-4 You can find alternative editions of this book and additional material on our website: www.v-r.de Cover image: Balancing of pebbles on the top of a triangle stone/shutterstock.com © 2015, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht LLC, Bristol, CT, U.S.A. www.v-r.de All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the publisher. Printed in Germany. Typesetting: Satzspiegel, Nörten-Hardenberg Managing Editor: Joseph A. Smith Printed and bound in Germany by H Hubert & Co., Göttingen Printed on non-aging paper. © 2015, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783525402474 — ISBN E-Book: 9783647402475 Table of Contents Tab leofCont ents Table of Contents Volume I: The Evolving Concept of Trauma Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Chapter 1: A Horrible Kind of Melancholia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Trauma Through the Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Traumatic Melancholia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Chapter 2: Traumatic Hysteria and Grand Hysteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Suffering from a Dry Womb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suffering from Black Bile, the Devil, or Demons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suffering