I. Foundations.- 1. History, Phenomenology, and Epidemiology of Dissociation.- 2. European Studies of Dissociation.- 3. Dissociation in Normal Populations.- II. Developmental Perspectives.- 4. Dissociation in Typical and Atypical Development: Examples from Father—Daughter Incest Survivors.- 5. Child Abuse in the Etiology of Dissociative Disorders.- 6. Disorganization and Disorientation in Infant Strange Situation Behavior: Phenotypic Resemblance to Dissociative States.- 7. Dissociative Disorders in Children and Adolescents.- III. Theoretical Models.- 8. Recent Developments in the Neurobiology of Dissociation: Implications for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.- 9. Hypnosis and Dissociation: Theoretical, Empirical, and Clinical Perspectives.- 10. Emotional Dissociation in Response to Trauma: An Information-Processing Approach.- IV. Assessment.- 11. Diagnostic Issues, Criteria, and Comorbidity of Dissociative Disorders.- 12. The Psychological Assessment of Dissociation.- 13. Psychophysiological Assessment of Dissociative Disorders.- V. Diagnostic Classifications.- 14. Depersonalization and Derealization.- 15. Dissociative Amnesia and Dissociative Fugue.- 16. Dissociative Identity Disorder.- 17. Dissociative Symptoms in the Diagnosis of Acute Stress Disorder.- 18. Posttraumatic Responses to Childhood Abuse and Implications for Treatment.- VI. Therapeutic Interventions.- 19. A Cognitively Based Treatment Model for DSM-IV Dissociative Identity Disorder.- 20. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy of Dissociative Identity Disorder.- 21. Overt—Covert Dissociation and Hypnotic Ego State Therapy.- 22. Hypnotherapeutic Techniques to Facilitate Psychotherapy with PTSD and Dissociative Clients.- 23. Memory Processing and the Healing Experience.- 24. Inpatient Treatment of DissociativeDisorders.- 25. Art and the Dissociative Paracosm: Uncommon Realities.- 26. Psychopharmacology.- VII. Special Topics.- 27. Clinical Aspects of Sadistic Ritual Abuse.- 28. Legal and Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Dissociative Disorders.