Wounded by Reality

Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-88163-430-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

The culmination of three decades of studying and treating survivors of adult onset trauma, Wounded by Reality is the first systematic attempt to differentiate adult onset trauma from childhood trauma, with which it is frequently confused.

When catastrophic events overtake adult lives, they often scar the psyche in ways that psychodynamically oriented clinicians struggle to understand. For Ghislaine Boulanger, the enormous challenge of working with these patients is unsurprising. Survivors of major catastrophe, whether a natural disaster, a life-threatening assault, a serious accident, or an act of terrorism, experience a near-fatal disruption of fundamental aspects of self experience. The sense of agency, of affectivity, of bodily integrity, the capacity for self-reflection, the sense of time, and the ability to relate to others - all are called into question.

Zielgruppe

Professional and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boulanger, Ghislaine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Toward a Psychodynamic Understanding of Adult Onset Trauma. Catastrophic Dissociation and Childhood Trauma: Some Distinctions. The Cost of Survival: Historical Perspectives on Adult Onset Trauma. Wounded by Reality: The Relational Turn. The Core Self in Crisis: Deconstructing Catastrophic Dissociation. The Relational Self in Crisis: Further Deconstructing Catastrophic Dissociation. From Voyeur to Witness: The Crisis in Symbolic Functioning During Catastrophic Dissociation. The Ancient Mariner's Dilemma: Constructing a Trauma Narrative. The Strength Found in Innocence: Resistance to Working Psychodynamically with Survivors of Adult Onset Trauma. The Psychological Politics of Catastrophe: Local, Personal, and Professional.

Über Autor(innen)

Ghislaine Boulanger is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and a member of the Relational faculty at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Her interest in adult onset trauma began when she joined a congressionally mandated research team doing an epidemiological study of Vietnam veterans. Her findings about the long-term consequences of surviving violence in adulthood have led to a career of research, writing, and teaching about the psychodynamic causes and consequences of adult onset trauma.