Full Description
Dedicated to Daniela Eulert-Fuchs, this important volume offers a broad and in-depth overview of how to understand and treat trauma from a Jungian perspective, written by internationally recognized experts in the field of Jungian and traditional psychoanalysis.
It applies C.G. Jung's concept of the 'complex' and his understanding of splitting processes of the psyche to trauma. Traversing a range of pertinent themes including archetypal defences, primary narcissistic wounding, somatic symptoms, symbolic representation and processing, transference and types of memory, the book features a variety of voices from different theoretical perspectives, with each contributor offering clinical examples and lessons from their experiences working with patients. Chapters cover a wide range of clinical phenomena including early relational trauma, dissociative states, the Self-care System, unconscious communication, embodied countertransference, eroticization, PTSD, creativity and cultural/social issues.
The Complexity of Trauma is key reading for psychoanalysts and therapists as well as for researchers, students, and trainees in schools of psychodynamic psychotherapy and those interested in working with trauma.
Contents
Introduction 1. Feeling-Toned Complexes and the Treatment of Trauma: A Jungian Perspective 2. Trauma and the Inner World: The Self-care System as a Resistance to Healing Part 1: Early Relational Trauma 3. Countertransference in Working with Early Relational Trauma: In Dialogue with the Body 4. The Body Roots of Traumatic Experiences: From Un-symbolized Body Memory to Bodily Reverie 5. Working with Early Relational Trauma and Borderline States: The Role of Unconscious Communication Part 2: Dissociative Processes in Trauma 6. PTSD: Feeling-Toned Complexes and the Twilight of Self-Awareness 7. Trauma and Dissociation: A Patient-Clinician Psychodynamic Perspective 8. Eroticized Trauma and its Manifestations in the Transference 9. The Black Sun of a Transgenerational Trauma: Dissociative Processes, Affects and the Development of the Symbolic Function Part 3: Sociological and Analytic Aspects of Trauma 10. Social Trauma 11. New Evolutionary Perspectives between Trauma and Resilience: Dysregulated and Con-fused 12. Working with Cultural Trauma: The Archetype of the Wounded Healer in a Multicultural Analytic Couple 13. A Jungian Approach to Working with the Trauma of Migrants: Waves, Tempests, Harbours Part 4: Poetic and Creative Methods 14. Myths, Trauma and the Neurobiological Psyche 15. The Role of Memory and Creativity in the Healing Process of Trauma 16. Understanding Trauma, Suffering, and Mourning from the Knowledge of the Heart
