Into the darkest places : early relational trauma and borderline states of mind / Marcus West.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

West, Marcus, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma.

Physical Description:

xxv, 334 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Early relational trauma and borderline states of mind

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books ; 2016.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Early relational trauma and borderline states of mind 1

Chapter 2 The clinical picture and the traditional psychoanalytic understandings of borderline phenomena 11

Chapter 3 A brief outline of trauma theory 25

Chapter 4 The relational and attachment perspective 49

Chapter 5 Trauma, complex, and narcissistic defences of the core self-from fight and flight to personality organisation 67

Chapter 6 Internal working models on different levels and in direct and reversed forms 83

Chapter 7 Into the darkest places: microanalysis of the analytic relationship intersubjectivity, co-construction, and re-enactment 97

Chapter 8 Broad and flexible ego-functioning and the core self-the ego-self axis and ps-dp 113

Chapter 9 Idealisation and the longing for paradise-relinquishing the wish for an idealised, conflict-free relationship 127

Chapter 10 Bringing it all together-an extended clinical example 139

Chapter 11 The pressures on the analyst-being human and bearing to be inhuman 149

Chapter 12 The analyst's journey and the defeat of the analyst's ego-Orpheus and Eurydice and the journey through the underworld 175

Chapter 13 Trauma and the analytic attitude 205

Chapter 14 When the earth swallows you up-shame, regression, and the collapse response 223

Chapter 15 In thrall to the spectre of death-suicidality, submission, and collapse 231

Chapter 16 Dissociation and dissociative identity disorder 243

Chapter 17 The body remembers-working analytically with the body 255

Chapter 18 Jung's early relational trauma and spiritual experience 269

Chapter 19 Summary and conclusion-emerging from trauma and returning to everyday life 297.

Notes:

Includes bibliogyan.

ISBN:

9781782201229

178220122X

OCLC:

950885661