Dissociation and the question of history: "What, precisely, are the facts?"

Dissociative Symptom Disorders in Advanced Nursing Practice: Background, Treatment, and Instrumentation to Assess Symptoms

“…Severe dissociation during the traumatic experience is believed to increase the likelihood of generalization of similar emotional-cognitive mechanisms following the event. The experience of ongoing trauma in childhood significantly increases the likelihood of developing dissociative disorders in adulthood (International Society for the Study of Dissociation, 2002;Kisiel & Lyons, 2001;Martinez-Taboas & Guillermo, 2000;Nash, Hulsey, Sexton, Harralson, & Lambert, 1993;Siegel, 2003;Spiegel & Cardena, 1991).…”

Space Travels of the Wolfman: Phobia and its Worlds

“…By the end of the analysis, for example, Freud is not even certain that psychoanalysis had provided a 'cure' for the Wolfman, instead offering the possibility that relief for his symptoms was the consequence of the guilt-relieving circumstances afforded by World War 1 (footnote 6, added 1923, p. 320). So one reason for re-visiting Freud's case study of the Wolfman might be to assert psychoanalysis as a therapeutic practice born of the absolute necessity of proliferating meanings, or offering interpretations in the plural, or of not settling quickly or easily on preconceptions about the mechanisms and development of the psyche (see also Siegel, 2003;Torok & Abraham, 1986). These may be fine in themselves, but what intrigues us is why psychoanalysis is constantly struggling with the dissolution of analytical certainties.…”