Ghosts in the consulting room : echoes of trauma in psychoanalysis / edited by Adrienne Harris, Margery Kalb and Susan Klebanoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, Adrienne, editor.

Kalb, Margery, editor.

Klebanoff, Susan, editor.

Series:

Relational perspectives book series ; v. 75.

Relational perspectives book series ; vol. 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xiii, 201 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis delves into the overwhelming, often unmetabolizable feelings related to mourning. The book uses clinical examples of people living in a state of liminality or ongoing melancholia. The authors reflect on the challenges of learning to move forward and embrace life over time, while acknowledging, witnessing and working through the emotional scars of the past. Bringing together a collection of clinical and theoretical papers, Ghosts in the Consulting Room features accounts of the unpredictable effects of trauma that emerge within clinical work, often unexpectedly, in ways that surprise both patient and therapist. In the book, distinguished psychoanalysts examine how to work with a variety of 'ghosts', as they manifest in transference and countertransference, in work with children and adults, in institutional settings and even in the very founders and foundations of the field of psychoanalysis itself. They explore the dilemma of how to process loss when it is unspeakable and unknowable, often manifesting in silence or gaps in knowledge, and living in strange relations to time and space. This book will be of interest to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, as well as to social workers, family therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists. It will appeal to those specializing in bereavement and trauma and, on a broader level, to sociologists and historians interested in understanding means of coping with loss and grief on both an individual and larger scale basis. Book jacket.

Contents:

Clinical 17

1 "I always wished T could stop time": an adolescent girl, unresolved mourning, and the haunted third / Susan Klebanoff Klebanoff, Susan 19

2 Ghostly intrusions: unformulated trauma and its transformation in the therapeutic dyad / Heather Ferguson Ferguson, Heather 36

3 Travel fever: transgenerational trauma and witnessing in analyst and analyst and / Michael J. Feldman Feldman, Michael J. 52

4 Shadows, ghosts, and Chimaeras: on some early modes of handling psycho-genetic heritage / Joshua Durban Durban, Joshua 76

5 Vaginal ghosts: memorializing the disappeared / Sue Grand Grand, Sue 97

Community & culture 113

6 Ghosts in psychoanalysis / Adrienne Harris Harris, Adrienne, Michael S. Roth Roth, Michael S., Jack Drescher Drescher, Jack, Daniel G. Butler Butler, Daniel G., Douglas Kirsner Kirsner, Douglas, Don Troise Troise, Don 115

7 Empty arms and secret shames: reverberations of relational trauma in the NICU / Susan Kraemer Kraemer, Susan, Zina Steinberg Steinberg, Zina 139

8 Mourning in the hollows of architecture and psychoanalysis / Maria Mcvarish Mcvarish, Maria, Julie Leavitt Leavitt, Julie 156

9 First kiss, last word: stairway to heaven / Adrienne Harris Harris, Adrienne 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415728652

0415728657

9780415728676

0415728673

OCLC:

923794327