Topography of trauma : fissures, disruptions and transfigurations

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Half Title Title Page Contents Illustrations Notes on Contributors part 1 Conceptualising Trauma ­chapter 1 The Continuum of Trauma 2 Phenomenology of Trauma: Foundational Aspects 3 Psychological Aspects: Trauma, Personality, Mental Illness 5 Trauma as a 'Healing' Mechanism 6 Conclusion Bibliography ­chapter 2 Encountering Trauma 'Too Soon' and 'Too Late': Caruth, Laplanche, and the Freudian Nachträglichkeit 1 Introduction 2 The Freudian Nachträglichkeit: between Progression and Retroaction 3 Encountering Trauma 'One Moment Too Late' 4 Traumatic Awakening as Repetition Compulsion5 Freud and Emma 6 Laplanche's Afterwardsness: Synthesising the Bidirectional Trajectories of Nachträglichkeit 7 Situating Trauma: between the Past and the Present, the External and the Internal Bibliography ­chapter 3 'A World of Death and Phantoms': Auschwitz, Androids, and the Ethical Demands of Reading Trauma and the Fantastic in Willing Unbelief Bibliography ­chapter 4 Through the Looking-Glass: Child Sexual Abuse from the Inside-Out 1 A Sort of Mist 2 Looking-Glass House 3 The Corkscrew Path 4 Getting Invisible 5 Nothing to Cry About6 Six Impossible Things 7 I Know My Name Now 8 Having Seen Each Other Bibliography ­chapter 5 Working with Addiction and Trauma: Mental Health Professionals Reflect on Their Use of Spirituality 1 Introduction 2 A Special Interest Discussion Group on Spirituality 2.1 The Group 2.2 The Mental Health and Addictions Treatment Centre 2.3 Pathways to Recovery 3 Talking About Trauma and Spirituality 3.1 Approaches to Spirituality 3.2 Discussion Group Process 4 Spirituality and Addictions Work 4.1 What Is Spirituality in Counselling and Addictions Work? 5 Admitting Spirituality into Practice5.1 How Much Do We as Counsellors Admit Spirituality into Our Work? 6 Competence 6.1 Counsellor Competence with Client Spirituality 7 Trauma and Change 7.1 Does Trauma Hold the Potential for Growth-Promoting Change? 8 Trauma and Spirituality 8.1 Conceptualising Spirituality in Addiction's Counselling Practice Acknowledgement Bibliography part 2 Contemplating Trauma Chapter 6 Transformative Shocks: War Trauma in David Rabe's Sticks and Bones and Sam Shepard's States of Shock Bibliography ­chapter 7 'Pinned limb to limb by a ton of rocks': Annihilation in the Face of Captivity and Torture in Alan Cumyn's Man of Bone1 Introduction 2 Relevant Psycho-Analytical Theories 3 Stylistic and Compositional Reflection of Trauma 4 Conclusion Bibliography ­chapter 8 Writing Trauma, Writing Modern: Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted Vigil and Atiq Rahimi's The Patience Stone 2 Interrupted Amputation 3 The Lost Girl and the Lapis Lazuli 4 More Than Just a Piece of Meat 5 Rain, Drips, Breaths 6 Conclusion Acknowledgement Bibliography ­chapter 9 Body and Trauma in Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted