Understanding Trauma - A Psychoanalytical Approach

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.

List 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

About the author

Caroline Garland is a consultant clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, who founded the Unit for the Study of Trauma and Its Aftermath in the Adult Department of the Tavistock Clinic. She has worked for over fifteen years with a number of colleagues specialising in the theoretical understanding and the psychotherapeutic treatment of trauma.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Garland
• Assisted by: Caroline Garland (Editor), Garland Caroline (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367329525
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32952-5
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Tavistock Clinic Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Trauma and Violence