1st Edition
Infant Trauma in Adults A Jungian Selving Transformation
Introduction Part 1: Selving 1. Adult Presentation of Earliest Wounding 2. Coming into Being 3. Small Beginnings of First Inner Experience 4. Earliest Wounding Part 2: Re-accessing the Ground Plan of Our Nature 5. Carl Jung: The Selving Archipelago 6. Michael Fordham: How we Experience the Primary Self 7. Erich Neumann: The Evolving Self in Phase-related Ego-Self Axis Formation 8. The Psychology of Selving Part-Self-States and Trauma 9. Constitutional Part-Self-States Part 3: Self Renewing Transformation of Adult Infant Trauma 10. Adult Case of Unresolved Crib Trauma 11. Archetypal Defensive Selfcare System 12. Body-Self Psychifying Practise 13. Restoring the De-integration—Re-integration Cycle 14. Mystery of the Dual Child 15. Dreams Unconsciously Psychify A New Beginning Part 4: The Mythopoetic Story of Selving The Traumatized Changeling 16. The Moorchild: A Changeling Caught Between Two Worlds
Biography
Kelly Polanski is a Jungian Analyst in private practice and an Accredited Analyst of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. Based in Edmonton, Canada, she lectures and teaches widely on the transformation of infant trauma in adults.
'In this outstanding tome, Kelly Polanski has amassed and packed an impressive amount of knowledge, information, and experience in support of Selving, her term for the process involved in reassembling a psyche that was split at a very early age. Therapists from all backgrounds working with traumatized patients, will profit from the breadth and depth in this monumental work and major advance that will prove to be a milestone in the treatment of patients with bifurcated souls.'
Art Funkhouser, retired instructor of dreamwork, C. G. Jung Institute, Küsnacht, Switzerland
'This insightful book explores unremembered early trauma arising during the process of Selving—in the first year of life—and its enduring impact on adult individuation. Drawing together Jungian developmental concepts, archetypal and dream symbolism, changeling mythology, and contemporary findings in neuroscience, the author offers a poetic inquiry that is at once grounded and convincing, as well as beautiful and compelling.'
Lara Lagutina, Dr. Clin. Psych., Training Jungian Analyst, The Society of Analytical Psychology, London
'Polanski masterfully synthesizes pertinent research on trauma and the formative infant psyche with Carl Jung’s quintessential work on the unconscious. Her work with adults who suffered early, pre-cognitive trauma restores the Spiritus Vitae of their forgotten inner child. This compelling read is for anyone who desires a deeper understanding of what it means to become an integrated whole self.'
Susann Gipson McDonald, Diploma Candidate, C. G. Jung Institute, Küsnacht, Switzerland
