1st Edition

Understanding Trauma A Psychoanalytical Approach

By Caroline Garland Copyright 1998
242 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Revised edition with additional chapter. This book, from the Tavistock Clinic Series, is about what follows the breakdown in functioning, either short or longer-term, provoked by a traumatic event. The authors offer a psychoanalytical understanding of the meaning of the trauma for an individual, illuminating theory with detailed clinical illustration and case histories. A range of therapeutic... Read more
Series Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- Introduction -- Thinking About Trauma -- Human Error -- Assessment and Consultation -- The Psychodynamic Assessment of Post-Traumatic States -- Preliminary Interventions -- Treatment in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy -- Trauma and Grievance -- Mental Work in a Trauma Patient -- Issues in Treatment -- Dreaming After a Traumatic Bereavement -- Identificatory Processes in Trauma -- Psychoanalysis -- Developmental Injury -- External Injury and the Internal World -- Groups -- The Traumatised Group -- Action, Identification and Thought in Post-traumatic States

Biography

Garland, Caroline