Session Two – Content Level: Advanced  
Master Topic: Psychological Concepts Related to Dissociation

The session will focus on concepts of dissociation, repression, and disorganized attachment.

Objectives:
1. Summarize the usage and meaning of repression, dissociation, and the unconscious
2. Formulate connections among disorganized attachment, dissociation, and self-criticism
3. Prepare and present case reports and process therapeutic interventions

Readings:

• Howell, E. (2020) Trauma and Dissociation Informed Psychotherapy:  Relational Healing and the Therapeutic Connection. W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY. Chapters 5-7 (pp. 77-133).
• Sally Jowett, Thanos Karatzias, Mark Shevlin & Philip Hyland (2021): Psychological trauma at different developmental stages and ICD-11 CPTSD: The role of dissociation, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, DOI: 10.1080/15299732.2021.1934936

Timed Outline:
1 hour: Discussion of Chapters 5-7 in Trauma and Dissociation Informed Psychotherapy
15 minutes: Discussion of “Psychological trauma at different developmental stages and ICD-11 CPTSD: The role of dissociation”
45 minutes: Case presentations