1st Edition
The Inner World of Trauma Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit
By Donald Kalsched
Copyright 1996
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Donald Kalsched explores the interior world of dream and fantasy images encountered in therapy with people who have suffered unbearable life experiences. He shows how, in an ironical twist of psychical life, the very images which are generated to defend the self can become malevolent and destructive, resulting in further trauma for the person. Why and how this happens are the questions the book... Read more
Introduction; Part I Part I; Chapter 1 The Inner World of Trauma in its Diabolical Form; Chapter 2 Further Clinical Illustrations of the Self-Care System; Chapter 3 Freud and Jung's Dialogue about Trauma's Inner World; Chapter 4 Jung's Contributions to a Theory of the Self-Care System; Chapter 5 Additional Jungian Contributions; Chapter 6 Psychoanalytic Theory about the Self-Care System; Part II Part II; Chapter 7 Rapunzel and the Self-Care System; Chapter 8 Psyche and Her Daimon-Lover; Chapter 9 Fitcher's Bird And the Dark Side of the Self; Chapter 10 Prince Lindworm and Transformation of the Daimonic Through Sacrifice and Choice;
Biography
Donald Kalsched is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute, New York.
'This book makes exciting reading. Scholarship linking many different schools of psychotherapists is combined imaginatively with the main theory and with clinical examples ... I warmly recommend this book.' - Journal of the Brisith Association of Psychotherapists
'Don Kalsched's book is a tour de force ... one finds oneself referring to it constatnly when working with these extremely difficult, very vunerable patients.' - The Round Table Review
