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Analysing Patients with Traumas: Separation, Illness, Violence

By Franziska Henningsen

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
1782203354, 9781782203353
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3217396 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
316\317
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2018-05-26 07:01:09
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Description

The focus of this book is on detailed case histories of patients with severe traumas. The author takes us through the successive stages of analysis and gives us a graphic impression of the progress of her diagnostic and therapeutic insights into traumatic processes and their treatment. Her main interest is in the development of the transference/countertransference relationship. Traumatic experience has to be actualised within that relationship if it is to be treated successfully, only in this way can therapeutic change become a feasible proposition. Traumatic micro-processes and trauma-sequel phenomena in transference and countertransference are described and conceptualized. The author demonstrates her point with examples taken from clinical practice: illnesses experienced as traumatic; separation traumas; childhood experiences of violence; adult experiences of violence: war, torture, and displacement that can engender PTSD. This book is a genuinely original contribution to psychoanalytic treatment of traumas.

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