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This paper attempts to integrate a series of empirical and theoretical studies on psychological consequences of developmental traumatization, which may yield further insight into factors which threaten the integrity of human consciousness. Revival of studies on psychological trauma and dissociation, which remained outside mainstream psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis for the most part of the past century, has provided a new opportunity to revisit this intellectual and scientific endeavour. The nature of consciousness and the autonomy of the individual’s mind have been a focus of interest throughout the past century and inspired many theories and models.
As newly introduced concepts, “Sociological Self” and “Trauma-Self” (Symptomatic Self) are presented as elements of this model which have direct implications about disturbances of identity and psychotherapeutic interventions taylored to address them. This chapter is concerned with the Theory of “Functional Dissociation of Self” (Şar and Öztürk, 2007) which proposes such a model of mind. As developmental traumatization is usually associated with dissociation regardless the prevailing diagnostic pattern, models of mind considering the relationships between childhood adversities, dissociation, and identity are compelling not only for social scientists but also for clinicians who are exposed to Dissociative Identity Disorder (aka Multiple Personality Disorder), Borderline Personality Disorder, and Complex PTSD as conditions responding to psychotherapy rather than speficic drug regimens. It is of particular interest that the few diagnostic categories associated with some type of identity disturbance are related to chronic psychological traumatization in childhood such as abuse an/or neglect or deficiencies in secure interpersonal attachment.
Identity has been a relatively underreferenced concept in psychiaty and clinical psychopathology.
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