Emotional Abuse and Other Psychic Harms - Invisible Wounds and Their Histories

Informationen zum Autor Marian Allsopp worked as a journalist and economist before having children. In the 1980s she was a family therapist and systems consultant in the adolescent ward of the Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK. She took a research post in the early 1990s atNottingham University, UK, looking at social workers' attitudes to risk. From 1997-2003 she was a part-time Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and she received a PhD from the Sociology Department of the London School of Economics in 2009. Klappentext Maps the emergence of a powerful psycho-social idea out of its historical and social circumstances, as the concept of injury or trauma has moved, over the twentieth century, from the description of a physical, visible lesion to a more abstract, psychic harm often thought of as an 'invisible wound'. Zusammenfassung Maps the emergence of a powerful psycho-social idea out of its historical and social circumstances! as the concept of injury or trauma has moved! over the twentieth century! from the description of a physical! visible lesion to a more abstract! psychic harm often thought of as an 'invisible wound'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Invisible Wounds Suffering From Nerves: The Management of Subjectivity in PTSD Negligently Inflicted Psychiatric Illness or Nervous Shock The Emotional Abuse of Children: An Inward Turn The Heart of All Harm: The Emotional Abuse Literature: 1980 2006 Attachment: An 'Internalised Something' and the Natural World Risk and Resilience: Attachment at the Turn of the Century Conclusion Notes References

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Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Invisible Wounds Suffering From Nerves: The Management of Subjectivity in PTSD Negligently Inflicted Psychiatric Illness or Nervous Shock The Emotional Abuse of Children: An Inward Turn The Heart of All Harm: The Emotional Abuse Literature: 1980 2006 Attachment: An 'Internalised Something' and the Natural World Risk and Resilience: Attachment at the Turn of the Century Conclusion Notes References

Product details

• Authors: M Allsopp, M. Allsopp, Marian Allsopp, ALLSOPP MARIAN
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.2012
• EAN: 9780230303027
• ISBN: 978-0-230-30302-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Emotion, Social Theory, personality, Psychology: emotions, Social Work, Emotions, Abnormal psychology, Social Psychology, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Social, group or collective psychology, Community and Environmental Psychology, Community Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Differential Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Psychopathology, Social sciences—Philosophy, Psychology, Pathological