Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma: Intergenerational Transmission, Psychoanalytic Treatment, and the Dynamics of Forgiveness

by Clara Mucci

Overview

This book represents a major effort to integrate contemporary theories and findings regarding the psychological effects of severe trauma. It explores the psychodynamic implications of aggression, sexuality and dependency, and the consequences of primitive defensive operations dealing with them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780491493
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/20/2013
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Clara Mucci is a psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapist practicing in Milan and Pescara, Italy. She is Full Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Chieti, where she taught English Literature and Shakespearean Drama. She received a PhD from Emory University, Atlanta, and was a fellow in 2005-2006 at the Institute of Personality Disorder, New York, directed by Otto Kernberg. The author of several monographies on Shakespeare, psychoanalysis and literary theory, she has taught in London (Westminster College), Atlanta, and New York (Hunter College).

Table of Contents

Preface — From early relational trauma, to abuse, to massive social trauma — Psychoanalysis of trauma: contemporary psychoanalysis and/as testimony — Generations of trauma: reflections on the transmission of trauma from the first to the second and third generation — Going beyond trauma: mourning, connectedness, creativity, and the practice of forgiveness