Animal killer : transmission of War trauma from one generation to the next / by Vamik D. Volkan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Volkan, Vamik D., 1932- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-traumatic stress disorder--Treatment.

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Veterans--Mental health.

Veterans.

Psychic trauma--Treatment.

Psychic trauma.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (119 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A psychoanalytic process from its beginning to its termination is described to illustrate crucial technical issues in the treatment of individuals with narcissistic personality organization and the countertransference manifestations such patients stimulate in the analyst. The subject of this book exhibited cruelty to confirm and stabilize his grandiosity. His internal world was a "reservoir" of the deposited image of his father figure, an individual most severely traumatized during World War II. The patient was given the task to be a mass-"killer" of animals instead of being a hunted one.This book most clearly illustrates how the transgenerational transmission of trauma takes place and how the impact of war continues in future generations. The book also provides an understanding of a special kind of psychological motivation that directs a person to use weapons for mass killing. In this era of pluralism in psychoanalysis, providing the story of a psychoanalytic case in its duration opens ways for comparison and discussion of technique and can be used as a teaching tool.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ABOUT THIS BOOK; FOREWORD A second look; CHAPTER ONE My behind-the-scenes work with Peter; CHAPTER TWO What makes a person live in an "island empire"?; CHAPTER THREE Gregory's birdhouse and Peter's raccoon experience; CHAPTER FOUR Black bears and taxidermy; CHAPTER FIVE "Empty sleep", therapeutic regression, and "crucial juncture" experiences; CHAPTER SIX Operation Desert Storm, sinking a psychological submarine, and the inability to shoot a black bear; CHAPTER SEVEN Mourning and oedipal issues

CHAPTER EIGHT A "second look", freeing a bird, and the end of psychoanalytic workREFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 21, 2013).

ISBN:

0-429-91081-9

0-429-89658-1

0-429-47181-5

1-78241-203-4

9780429471810

OCLC:

865334500