Splintered Innocence The Intuitive Discovery and Psychology of Childhood War Trauma in Adults

Name: Splintered Innocence The Intuitive Discovery and Psychology of Childhood War Trauma in Adults
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ISBN: 9780415223621

ISBN-10: 0415223628

ISBN-13: 9780415223621

Edition: 2001

Authors: Peter Heinl

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The horrific scale of destruction due to the Second World War in countries all over the world is well known. A whole generation of children grew up being exposed to the horrors of war early on in life, yet the dimension and legacy of the long-term psychological impact of these early traumatic experiences has been a sadly neglected topic in the therapeutic and mental health literature. This book is designed to help counselors and therapists working with adults and children from a variety of backgrounds who have suffered war trauma in childhood. Splintered Innocence is firmly based on the author's own clinical practice and also draws on his innovative style of intuitive discovery and…

Book details

List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/26/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748



Preface



Victims without words: the shadows of war on adult faces


The distant thunder of history


The silence of the guitar


'Angst': the grimace of war


A spell of dizziness


Mysterious depression


An infant's journey


The dream of the white stars


The memory of a river crossing


A timeless night


A mourning ritual



A parallel process


Self-observation: the making of my own conscious links



Complexities, connections and unconscious constructs


The silver necklace


The enigma of the desert


A journey into the abyss of consciousness: the story of a child witness



Recognizing patterns


(Post-)war childhood trauma: the mosaic of psychological sequelae


The spectrum of polytrauma


Disturbances of mental organization: anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and beyond



Uncovering (post-)war trauma in childhood


Creating an awareness


The wider picture: obstacles, challenges and authoritarian abuse



To see or not to see...the unconscious: the role of intuition


Intuition: the struggle to comprehend


Perceptual thinking: the capacity of looking into the early world of trauma


Object sculpts: levels of meaning and space-time transformations


Intuition: the icon of a new thinking about thinking



Between despair and hope: the challenges of perception and prevention


Children in current wars


Building bridges: Holocaust and (post-)war trauma in childhood


Childhood without war: a utopian dream?


Splintered innocence


Timeless gratitude


Bibliography


Index