Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations- Front Cover -- Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Mindfulness -- References -- Chapter 2: The Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Mindfulness -- 1) Regulating Fear and the Body -- 2) Emotional Regulation -- 3) Response Flexibility -- 4) Regulation of Procedural Learning and Conditioned Fear Response -- 5) Attuned Communication -- 6) Empathy -- 7) Insight, Interception and Neuroception -- 8) Intuition -- 9) Morality -- References -- Chapter 3: Conceptual Understanding of Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders -- References -- Chapter 4: Foundational Understanding of Dissociation -- Newton's Third Law -- The Ames Room -- References -- Chapter 5: Childhood Trauma Constructed and Deconstructed: How Mindfulness Is Prevented from Developing -- References -- Chapter 6: An Academic Perspective of Dissociation -- Dissociation Symptoms/Phenomena, Process and Personality Organization -- Dissociative Symptoms or Dissociative Phenomena: The Medical Model -- Core Symptoms of Dissociation (DSM-V) -- OSDD/USDD/DID: The More Severe DDs -- The Importance of the Imagination -- DID as a Natural Occurring Survival Tactic or Processing Style -- Structural Dissociation -- Diagnoses and Structural Dissociation -- The Rate and Prevalence of DDs, Including DID -- More Evidence and Addressing the Myths -- References -- Chapter 7: Trauma, Dissociation, and Mindfulness: Trauma-Informed Practices -- Dissociation and Awareness -- Dissociation and Mindfulness -- A Quick Overview of Dissociation and the Lack of mPFC Processing (Mindfulness) -- 1) Regulating Fear and the Body -- 2) Emotional Regulation -- 3) Response Flexibility