Demons in the consulting room : echoes of genocide, slavery, and extreme trauma in psychoanalytic practice / 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. 76.

Relational perspectives book series ; vol. 76

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma.

Grief.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xiii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

Demons in the Consulting Room: Echoes of genocide, Slavery and extreme trauma in psychoanalytic practice is the second of two volumes addressing the overwhelming, often unmetabolizable feelings related to mourning, both on an individual and mass scale. Authors in this volume explore the potency of ghosts, ghostliness and the darker, often grotesque aspects of these phenomena. While ghosts can be spectral presences that we feel protective of, demons haunt in a particularly virulent way, distorting experience, our sense of reality and our character. Bringing together a collection of clinical and theoretical papers, Demons in the Consulting Room, reveals how the most extreme types of trauma can continue to have effects across generations, and how these effects manifest in the consulting room. Essays in this volume consider traumas that have affected multiple generations of people, such as the Holocaust, experiences in the gulags, and the experience of slavery. Authors here consider the clinical challenges of working with the demonic force in severe childhood abuse and the effects of serious and prolonged physical injury and illness. Inevitably, there is in such difficult clinical work, the combined effects of hauntings in the analysts and in patients and often in the surrounding culture. In this book, distinguished psychoanalysts explore the myriad forms of ghosts and the demonic, which interfere and disrupt the endlessly difficult psychic work of mourning. It will be of interest to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, as well as social workers, family therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists. Demons in the Consulting Room 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 Ghosts in the consulting room: reluctant ancestors / Margery Kalb Kalb, Margery 19

2 The Dybbuk: it's me or him / Galit Atlas Atlas, Galit 46

3 Occupation; a ghost story / Arthur Fox Fox, Arthur 59

4 Repressed ghosts and dissociated vampires in the enacted dimension of psychoanalytic treatment / Gil Katz Katz, Gil 69

5 Do we find or lose ourselves in the negative? / Jade McGleughlin McGleughlin, Jade 93

Community & culture 123

6 The past is the presence between us: psychoanalysis and the specter of the Shoah / Emily A. Kuriloff Kuriloff, Emily A. 125

7 Ghosts and the sexual boundary violation: the limits of an idea / Muriel Dimen Dimen, Muriel 140

8 Basic uncertainty and totalitarian objects / Michael Šebek Šebek, Michael 148

9 The presence of the past: transmission of slavery's traumas / Janice P. Gump Gump, Janice P. 159

10 Wounded stories / Alexander Etkind Etkind, Alexander 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138943483

1138943487

9781138943490

1138943495

OCLC:

930255551

Publisher Number:

40026393532