Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytical Approach

by Caroline Garland

Overview

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 illustr

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367329525
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/31/2019
Series:	Tavistock Clinic Series
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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