Psychic trauma : dynamics, symptoms, and treatment / Ira Brenner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brenner, Ira, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma.

Psychic trauma--Treatment.

Physical Description:

xvi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Jason Aronson, [2004]

Summary:

This book is about the psychoanalytically informed understanding, recognition, and treatment of severe psychological trauma. It goes beyond the limited notion of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and addresses the issues associated with problems ranging from physical and sexual abuse to genocidal persecution.

Contents:

Trauma and dissociation

Mother-adult daughter incest

The elusive defense of dissociation

The lifelong persistence of symptoms

Intergenerational transmission of symptoms

Unresolved grief

The analyst's own trauma

Falling asleep as countertransference enactment

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-327) and index.

ISBN:

0765703653

OCLC:

55744931