1st Edition
Betrayal Developmental, Literary, and Clinical Realms
Edited By Salman Akhtar
Copyright 2013
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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Betrayal underlies all psychic trauma, whether sexual abuse or profound neglect, violence or treachery, extramarital affair or embezzlement. When we betray others, we violate their confidence in us. When others betray us, they pierce the veil of our innocent reliance. Betraying and feeling betrayed are ubiquitous to the scenarios of trauma and yet surprisingly neglected as a topic of specific... Read more
Introduction , Developmental Realm , Betrayal in childhood , A seduced child is a betrayed child , Betrayal, shifting loyalties, identity, and love in adolescence , When the body betrays , Literary Realm , The theme of betrayal in the works of “William Shakespeare” , Betrayal as the creative force behind Oscar Wilde’s “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” , Clinical Realm , The compulsion to betray and the need to be betrayed , Sexual abuse of children as the betrayal of a sacred trust , The extramarital affair and the betrayal of a spouse , The injured bystander in analytic betrayal
Biography
Salman Akhtar
