Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytical Approach / Edition 1

by Caroline Garland

Overview

Revised edition with additional chapter. This book, from the Tavistock Clinic Series, is about what follows the breakdown in functioning, either short or longer-term, provoked by a traumatic event. The authors offer a psychoanalytical understanding of the meaning of the trauma for an individual, illuminating theory with detailed clinical illustration and case histories. A range of therapeutic procedures is described. Major disasters draw attention forcibly to their effects on the survivors. Less often recognised are the long-term after-effects of the huge number and variety of more private events, either accidental or deliberately inflicted, on an individual's subsequent emotional and working life. This book is about what follows the breakdown in functioning, either short or longer-term, provoked by a traumatic event. What is distinctive about this book is that its authors offer a psychoanalytical understanding of the meaning of the trauma for an individual, illuminating theory with detailed clinical illustration and case histories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855759770
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/2002
Series:	Tavistock Clinic Series
Edition description:	Second Enlarged Edition
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Caroline Garland is a Psycho-analyst, and Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has taught psychoanalytic group therapy in the Adult Department of the Tavistock Clinic for 25 years. Her background included three years’ study of social development in chimpanzees as well as observation of the behaviour of new-born infants at the Behaviour Development Research Unit of St. Mary’s Hospital. She taught group psychotherapy at the Maudsley Hospital from 1983 - 1997. In 1987 she founded the Tavistock’s Trauma Unit, and has written and published widely on the subject of trauma in adults. Currently she is engaged in the long-term Tavistock Outcome Study of treatment-resistant depression.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface — Introduction — Introduction — Thinking About Trauma — Human Error — Assessment and Consultation — The Psychodynamic Assessment of Post-Traumatic States — Preliminary Interventions — Treatment in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy — Trauma and Grievance — Mental Work in a Trauma Patient — Issues in Treatment — Dreaming After a Traumatic Bereavement — Identificatory Processes in Trauma — Psychoanalysis — Developmental Injury — External Injury and the Internal World — Groups — The Traumatised Group — Action, Identification and Thought in Post-traumatic States