title: Dissociative processes: theoretical underpinnings of a working model for clinician and patient.
abstract: Dissociative symptoms are now widely recognized, but they are nevertheless challenging for clinicians and bewildering to patients. The author presents a conceptual framework for understanding dissociative processes, emphasizing discontinuity in experience and delineating various junctures in the unfolding of dissociative episodes. The conceptual framework provides the theoretical underpinnings for a simple schema that can be used to explain dissociation to patients and to help them articulate their dissociative experience.
authors.affiliation: Trauma Recovery Program, Menninger Clinic, Topeka, KS 66601-0829.
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Allen
mesh_terms: D003243:Consciousness; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales