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The Struggle Against Mourning
This book deals with obstacles in the mourning process as experienced in individual cases and in large groups, in normative and in life-threatening situations. Rich in clinical examples from the author's practice, it describes the therapeutic tools that the author employed to achieve healthy outcomes. Additionally, the book focuses on various defenses, their function and importance, and on the difficulty of relinquishing them-and highlights the therapist's dilemmas in these contexts.
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The Struggle Against Mourning
This book deals with obstacles in the mourning process as experienced in individual cases and in large groups, in normative and in life-threatening situations. Rich in clinical examples from the author's practice, it describes the therapeutic tools that the author employed to achieve healthy outcomes. Additionally, the book focuses on various defenses, their function and importance, and on the difficulty of relinquishing them-and highlights the therapist's dilemmas in these contexts.
This book deals with obstacles in the mourning process as experienced in individual cases and in large groups, in normative and in life-threatening situations. Rich in clinical examples from the author's practice, it describes the therapeutic tools that the author employed to achieve healthy outcomes. Additionally, the book focuses on various defenses, their function and importance, and on the difficulty of relinquishing them-and highlights the therapist's dilemmas in these contexts.
Ilany Kogan serves as training analyst of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society and chief supervisor of The Center of Psychotherapy for the Child and Adolescent in Bucharest, Romania. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Fritz Bauer Institute for Holocaust Studies in Frankfurt, Germany. Additionally, she is a teacher and supervisor of members and candidates of the MYnchner Arbeitsgemeinschaft fYr Psychoanalyse in Munich, as well as of the staff of Eppendorf University Hospital's Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Hamburg.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Revisiting defenses against pain and mourning Part 3 Obstacles to individual mourning Chapter 4 Forever young Chapter 5 Lust for love Part 6 Unresolved mourning and its bearing on society Chapter 7 Introduction Chapter 8 Romania and its unresolved mourning Chapter 9 From enactment to mental representation Chapter 10 Trauma, resilience and creative activity Chapter 11 On being a dead, beloved child Part 12 Obstacles to mourning in an age of terror Chapter 13 Who am I—Trauma and identity Chapter 14 The role of the analyst in the analytic cure during times of chronic stress Chapter 15 Working with Holocaust survivors' offspring in the shadow of terror Part 16 Epilogue
What People are Saying About This
Henri Parens
With admirable acumen and insight, Ilany Kogan writes of the enormous challenge mourning poses not only to the patient who has experienced trauma, but also to the psychoanalyst working with such a patient. Kogan's candor and courage to look at her own work as analyst and human being are admirable. She also goes a step further to apply what she has learned in the clinical analytic situation to the societal settings of her native traumatized Romania and her long-embattled home, Israel. Trauma abounds; torment and pain are enormous; they transport themselves from burdened victims and perpetrators to their descendents who then struggle with their parents' unfinished, interminable work of mourning. Kogan shows that in our efforts to help, even though there is much we can do, we must accept our and our profession's inevitable limitations. There is much to learn from this deeply feeling human being, thinker, and clinician.