Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations: Trauma-Informed Practices to Facilitate Growth [Hardcover]

Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations explores the potential of mindfulness and explains why this level of developmental human achievement is so precarious within traumatic stress, especially traumatic dissociation. Chapters discuss the connection and disconnection between mindfulness and dissociative disorders and highlight the importance of gently creating a mindfulness practice for traumatized individuals. Readers will learn how to exercise the part of the brain that is responsible for mindfulness and how to regulate the part that is responsible for dissociation, and theyll come away from the book with tips that will help even the most dissociative client to reap the benefits of mindfulness practices.

List of Figures  Preface  Acknowledgments  About the Author  1. Mindfulness  2. The Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Mindfulness  3. Conceptual Understanding of Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders  4.Foundational Understanding of Dissociative Disorders  5. Childhood Trauma Constructed and Deconstructed: How Mindfulness is Prevented from Developing  6. An Academic Perspective of Dissociation  7. Trauma, Dissociation, and Mindfulness: Trauma-Informed Practices  8. Meditation and Psychotherapeutic Meditation  9. Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations: Trauma-Informed Practices That Facilitate Growth  10. Medial Prefrontal Cortex Processing and Creative Meditations  Index

In Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations, clinician Christine Forner offers concrete, easy-to-follow solutions for adapting meditation techniques for healing symptoms of PTSD, complex trauma, and dissociation.

Christine C. Forner, MSW, RSW, has more than 17 years of clinical experience workingl#—