Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Lesley University, Sherrill Library http://www.archive.org/details/preverbaltraumadOOdoro LUDCKE LIBRARY Lesley University 30 Mellen Street Cambridge. IWA 02138-2790 FOR REFERENCE Do Not Take From This Room PRE-VERBAL TRAUMA, DISSOCIATIONAND THE HEALING PROCESS A DISSERTATION submitted by DOROTHY DREIER SCOTTEN In partial fulfillment ofthe requirements for the degree of Doctor ofPhilosophy Lesley University November 1,2002 fn lovlmg memory of SmntAjath Singh, I aedlemte tbis Journey of disoovery