Author

Publication

2004-06-28 - Routledge

Language

English

Word Count

43,000 words, Guess

Page Count

172 pages

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Classifications

  • LCCRC552.P67

Description

This edited collection of psychoanalytic papers written by clinicians in the field of trauma offers a perspective on trauma and its effects on psychic functioning. In particular, it draws on attachment theory to explain how trauma undermines psychic resilience.

First Sentence

On September 11 2001 an ashen-faced patient attended her session and informed her therapist that two jets had ploughed into New York's Twin Towers and one into the Pentagon, destroying them completely and in the process 'killing 25,000 people'.

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