Trauma and Primitive Mental States - An Object Relations Perspective

Written by a clinician with over 30 years' experience, Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective provides valuable clinical examples of how such early trauma can be re-presented, brought into language and worked through.

List of contents

Foreword Howard D. Levine, MD
Introduction
Chapter 1: Between Body and Mind: Transforming Physical Experience
into Psychic Development in the Clinical Situation
Chapter 2: Affective Bridges Between Body and Mind
Chapter 3: The Silent Transference: Clinical Reflections on
Ferenczi, Klein, and Bion
Chapter 4: Somatic Countertransference
Chapter 5: Finding a Center of Gravity via Proximity to the Analyst
Chapter 6: Infantile Trauma, Therapeutic Impasse, and Recovery
Chapter 7: Finding the Impulse: Healing from Infantile Trauma
Chapter 8: The Body as a Mode of Representation
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD, FIPA is an IPA certified training and supervising psychoanalyst and a licensed child psychologist. Eekhoff is a full member and past president of the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and a full faculty member of the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society & Institute in Seattle, WA, USA. She has a private practice in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Summary

Written by a clinician with over 30 years’ experience, Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective provides valuable clinical examples of how such early trauma can be re-presented, brought into language and worked through.

Product details

• Authors: Judy K. Eekhoff, Judy K. (Payment Rejectred and No Respons Eekhoff
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.02.2019
• EAN: 9781138364363
• ISBN: 978-1-138-36436-3
• No. of pages: 122
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Trauma & shock, Psychotherapy, Social Work, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)