The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit / Edition 1

The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit / Edition 1

by Donald Kalsched
ISBN-10:
0415123291
ISBN-13:
9780415123297
Pub. Date:
11/07/1996
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
0415123291
ISBN-13:
9780415123297
Pub. Date:
11/07/1996
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit / Edition 1

The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit / Edition 1

by Donald Kalsched
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Overview

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 sets out to answer.
Drawing on detailed clinical material, the author gives special attention to the problems of addiction and psychosomatic disorder, as well as the broad topic of dissociation and its treatment. By focusing on the archaic and primitive defenses of the self he connects Jungian theory and practice with contemporary object relations theory and dissociation theory. At the same time, he shows how a Jungian understanding of the universal images of myth and folklore can illuminate treatment of the traumatised patient.
Trauma is about the rupture of those developmental transitions that make life worth living. Donald Kalsched sees this as a spiritual problem as well as a psychological one and in The Inner World of Trauma he provides a compelling insight into how an inner self-care system tries to save the personal spirit.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415123297
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 11/07/1996
Series: Near Eastern St.;Bibliotheca Persica
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 321,249
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Donald Kalsched is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute, New York.

Table of Contents

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;
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