Analysing patients with traumas : separation, illness, violence / Franziska Henningsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henningsen, Franziska, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Traumatism--Patients.

Traumatism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] : Karnac, 2018.

Summary:

The focus of this book is on detailed case histories of patients with severe traumas. The author takes us through the successive stages of analysis and gives us a graphic impression of the progress of her diagnostic and therapeutic insights into traumatic processes and their treatment. Her main interest is in the development of the transference/countertransference relationship. Traumatic experience has to be actualised within that relationship if it is to be treated successfully, only in this way can therapeutic change become a feasible proposition. Traumatic micro-processes and trauma-sequel phenomena in transference and countertransference are described and conceptualized. The author demonstrates her point with examples taken from clinical practice: illnesses experienced as traumatic; separation traumas; childhood experiences of violence; adult experiences of violence: war, torture, and displacement that can engender PTSD. This book is a genuinely original contribution to psychoanalytic treatment of traumas.

Contents:

COVER

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

About the author

Foreword

INTRODUCTION The rift in the ego

PART I SICK CHILDREN-SICK MOTHERS

CHAPTER ONE "No sick children in my house today": death fears in children

CHAPTER TWO "That's my mother's trauma, not mine": concretistic fusion, acting-out, symbolisation

CHAPTER THREE "We aren't starving yet": silence in withdrawal and communicating in images

CHAPTER FOUR Splitting and fusion

PART II SEPARATION TRAUMAS

CHAPTER FIVE "This is my daughter. Take good care of her!" From objectless anxiety to separation anxiety

CHAPTER SIX "Everyone knows my mother. Everyone except me." Concretistic fusion and denial of object loss

CHAPTER SEVEN "The greatest danger comes from myself": destruction and guilt

CHAPTER EIGHT Acting out and compulsive repetition

PART III EXPERIENCES OF VIOLENCE AND ABUSE IN CHILDHOOD

CHAPTER NINE A helper in search of help: splitting and psychic reality

CHAPTER TEN "I want no part of this hell": en route to perversion

CHAPTER ELEVEN "I can look after myself": destruction and consolation in one and the same object?

CHAPTER TWELVE Love and hate

PART IV EXPERIENCES OF VIOLENCE AND ABUSE IN ADULTHOOD: TORTURE AND WAR

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Post-traumatic stress disorder

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Negative countertransference: depletion and resilience

PART V CONCLUSION

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Consequences for psychoanalytic technique

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Trauma in society and politics: an outlook

References

INDEX.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed December 15, 2017).

ISBN:

1-00-342360-4

1-000-94219-8

1-000-94891-9

1-003-42360-4

1-78241-481-9

9781003423607

OCLC:

1380360944