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Understanding Trauma A Psychoanalytical Approach

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ISBN-10: 0415921880

ISBN-13: 9780415921886

Edition: 1998

Authors: Caroline Garland

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Natural disasters and war draw attention to the suffering of countless survivors of world-historical disaster; more extensive, and yet less visible are the trauma and after-effects of non-public events. Rooted in psychoanalysis, this thoughtful and detailed book shows how much can be done for traumatized individuals, but also the complex and long-standing nature of their problems. Understanding the nature of trauma and breakdown is essential if treatment is to be effective and durable. This book describes all aspects of trauma, through the careful application of sophisticated and developing theory to clinical work ranging from a short series of therapeutic consultations to full analysis.
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Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/28/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Caroline Garland is a Psycho-analyst, and Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has taught psychoanalytic group therapy in the Adult Department of the Tavistock Clinic for 25 years. Her background included three years study of social development in chimpanzees as well as observation of the behaviour of new-born infants at the Behaviour Development Research Unit of St. Mary s Hospital. She taught group psychotherapy at the Maudsley Hospital from 1983 - 1997. In 1987 she founded the Tavistock s Trauma Unit, and has written and published widely on the subject of trauma in adults. Currently she is engaged in the long-term Tavistock Outcome Study of treatment-resistant depression.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction: Why Psychoanalysis?
Thinking About Trauma
Human Error
The Psychodynamic Assessment of Post-Traumatic States
Preliminary Interventions: The Four-Session Therapeutic Consultation
Trauma and Grievance
Mental Work in a Trauma Patient
Issues in Treatment: A Case of Rape
Dreaming After a Traumatic Bereavement: Mourning or Its Avoidance?
Identificatory Processes in Trauma
Developmental Injury: Its Effects on the Inner World
External Injury and the Internal World
The Traumatised Group
Action, Identification and Thought in Post-Traumatic States
Suggestions for Further Reading
Bibliography
Index