Working with trauma : lessons from Bion and Lacan / Marilyn Charles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charles, Marilyn, author.

Series:

New imago

New Imago: series in theoretical, clinical, and applied psychoanalysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis--Case studies.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychic trauma.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Bion, Wilfred R. (Wilfred Ruprecht), 1897-1979.

Bion, Wilfred R.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 118 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Jason Aronson, [2014]

Summary:

Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan cakes concepts from the psychoanalytic literature and translates them into user-friendly language. In this book, Charles focuses on clinical work with more severely disturbed patients whose psychosocial development has been impeded by trauma. Introducing ideas from Bion and Lacan, such as "empty speech" and "attacks on linking," she shows the reader their clinical utility. Her use of clinical moments, rather than more lengthy vignettes, invites readers to recognize that type of dilemma and imagine how they might use the concept in their own work. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 The Subject Caught by the Desire of the Other 11

3 Stumbling over the Gap: "The Unconscious Is Structured Like a Language" 19

4 Shame and the Possibility of Insight 29

5 Development, Negation, and the Desire to Turn a Blind Eye: Part I 37

6 Development, Negation, and the Desire to Turn a Blind Eye: Part II: Perversion 45

7 Working with Trauma: Attacks on Linking and Empty Speech 53

8 Passage into Action and the Fear of Breakdown 65

9 Telling Trauma: Part I: Working with Psychosis 75

10 Telling Trauma: Part II: Signs, Symbols, and Symptoms 85

11 Meetings at the Edge 95.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-111) and index.

ISBN:

0765710064

9780765710062

OCLC:

862882893