Disconnecting to Survive

Pamela Fuller is a clinical psychologist with over thirty years of experience helping young children through older adults recover from the negative impacts of life experience. She specializes in trauma treatment, self-development, dissociation, psychosis, and relationship issues. Dr. Fuller also serves as an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the University of Utah School of Medicine. She has presented nationally and internationally on a variety of topics, particularly related to trauma treatment, crisis intervention, and phase-specific treatment of psychosis. Her book, Surviving, Existing, or Living: Phase-specific therapy for severe psychosis is available in both English and Spanish.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: What is Dissociation?.- Chapter 3: Defining Traumatic Events and PTSD.- Chapter 4: Dissociating from Your Core Self.- Chapter 5: Dissociating from Your Body.- Chapter 6: Dissociating from Reality: Dissociation and Psychosis.- Chapter 7: Dissociation in Children.- Chapter 8: Am I Surviving, Existing, or Living?.- Chapter 9: What do I do about it? Finding Safety in the Present.- Chapter 10: Calming Yourself.- Chapter 11:  Reconnecting within Yourself.- Chapter 12: Connecting to Others.- Chapter 13: Is there Hope for Me?