Rediscovering Pierre Janet

Giuseppe Craparo, PhD, is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and associate professor of clinical psychology at the Kore University of Enna, Italy. He is a member of the following associations: American Psychological Association, Italian Psychological Association, Association of Psychoanalytic Studies, International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies.

Rediscovering Pierre Janet: Psychoanalysis, Trauma and Dissociation explores the heritage left by Pierre Janet to contemporary psychology, psychopathology, and the treatment of trauma-related dissociative disorders.

Introduction (Giuseppe Craparo, Francesca Ortu, and Onno van der Hart); 1. A Reader¿s Guide To Pierre Janet: A Neglected Intellectual Heritage (Onno van der Hart and Barbara Friedman); 2. From Consciousness to Subconsciousness. A Janetian Perspective (Francesca Ortu and Giuseppe Craparo); Part I: Janet's Influence on Psychoanalysis; 3. Janet and Freud: Long-Time Rivals (Gabriele Cassullo); 4. Janet and Jung: A Stimulating Relationship (Caterina Vezzoli); 5. On Not Taking Just One Part of It: Janet¿s Influence on Object Relations Theory (Gabriele Cassullo); 6. From Janet to Bromberg, via Ferenczi: Standing in the Spaces of the Literature on Dissociation (Clara Mucci, Giuseppe Craparo, and Vittorio Lingiardi); Part II: Janet's Influence on Contemporary Psychotraumatology; 7. Reflections on Some Contributions to Contemporary Psychotraumatology in the Light of Janet¿s Critique of Freud¿s Theories (Giovanni Liotti and Marianna Liotti); 8. The Holistic Project of Pierre Janet. Part One: Disintegration or Désagrégation (Russell Meares and Cécile Barral); 9. The Holistic Project of Pierre Janet. Part Two: Oscillations and Becomings: From Disintegration to Integration (Cécile Barral and Russell Meares); 10. Pierre Janet on Hallucinations, Paranoia, and Schizophrenia (Andrew Moskowitz, Gerhard Heim, Isabelle Saillot, and Vanessa Beavan); Part III: Janet's Influence on Current Psychotherapy; 11. The Hypnotherapeutic Relationship with Traumatized Patients: Pierre Janet¿s Contributions to Current Treatment (Kathy Steele and Onno van der Hart); 12. Pierre Janet¿s Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress (Onno van der Hart, Paul Brown, and Bessel A. van der Kolk); 13. Pierre Janet¿s Views on the Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Therapy Dissociative Disorders (Gerhard Heim and Karl-Ernst Buhler); 14. Striving for Acts of Triumph in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (Pat Ogden); Epilogue: Dissociation in the DSM-5: Your View, S¿Il Vous Plaît, Docteur Janet? (Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis)