1st Edition

Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma Intergenerational Transmission, Psychoanalytic Treatment, and the Dynamics of Forgiveness

By Clara Mucci Copyright 2013
    312 Pages
    by Routledge

    312 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book represents a major effort to integrate contemporary theories and findings regarding the psychological effects of severe trauma. It explores the psychodynamic implications of aggression, sexuality and dependency, and the consequences of primitive defensive operations dealing with them.

    Preface -- From early relational trauma, to abuse, to massive social trauma -- Psychoanalysis of trauma: contemporary psychoanalysis and/as testimony -- Generations of trauma: reflections on the transmission of trauma from the first to the second and third generation -- Going beyond trauma: mourning, connectedness, creativity, and the practice of forgiveness

    Biography

    Mucci, Clara