Beschreibung:
By Ira Brenner
This book offers a clinical study of psychic trauma and provides a framework through which to understand the long term effects of overwhelming life experiences. Ira Brenner draws on two different populations, those affected by early physical and sexual abuse, as well as those affected by genocidal persecution during the Holocaust.
Chapter 1 An Effect on Development: Trauma and Dissociation Chapter 2 A Longstanding Secret: Mother-Adult Daughter Incest and "The Confusion of Tongues" Chapter 3 An Elusive Manifestation and an Attempt to Study It Chapter 4 The Lifelong Persistence of Symptoms: Returning to the Fire Chapter 5 Intergenerational Transmission: Barbed Wire in the Soul Chapter 6 An Effect on Development: Unresolved Grief and the Manic Defense Chapter 7 The Analyst's Own Trauma: Anonymity and Its Discontents Chapter 8 Falling Asleep on the Job: Facilitation of the Patient's Process or the Analyst's Resistance? Chapter 9 Can the Length of Treatment Be Shortened? A Psychoanalytic View of E.M.D.R