The Complexity of Trauma: Jungian and Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Treatment of Trauma

Dedicated to Daniela Eulert-Fuchs, this important volume offers a broad and in-depth overview of how to understand and treat trauma from a Jungian perspective, written by internationally recognized experts in the field of Jungian and traditional psychoanalysis.

It applies C.G. Jung’s concept of the ‘complex’ and his understanding of splitting processes of the psyche to trauma. Traversing a range of pertinent themes including archetypal defences, primary narcissistic wounding, somatic symptom...