1st Edition

Terror Within and Without Attachment and Disintegration: Clinical Work on the Edge

By Judy Yedlin, Orit Badouk Epstein Copyright 2013
    118 Pages
    by Routledge

    118 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book explores the experiences of terror states in the consulting room. It examines how we might more adequately provide support and legitimacy within the profession for work 'on the edge', and explores the means by which individuals struggle to cope with exposure to war zones.

    Introduction -- Attachment theory and the John Bowlby Memorial Lecture 2008: a short history -- A white boy goes to Mississippi -- Intergenerational transmission of massive trauma: the Holocaust -- The place of fear in attachment theory and psychoanalysis: the fifteenth John Bowlby Memorial Lecture -- States of terror and terrorist states: oppression and liberation in political and therapeutic contexts -- Stepping into the void of dissociation: a therapist and a client in search of a meeting place -- Introduction to The Bowlby Centre

    Biography

    Yedlin, Judy | Badouk Epstein, Orit