Research Catalog

Title

The perversion of loss : psychoanalytic perspectives on trauma / edited by Susan Levy and Alessandra Lemma.

Publication

new York, NY : Brunner-Routledge, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Lemma, Alessandra
• Levy, Susan (Clinical psychologist)
• Levy, Susan, 1952-

Description

xviii, 172 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Whurr series in psychoanalysis

Uniform Title

Whurr series in psychoanalysis

Subject

• Attachment behavior
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Psychic trauma
• Psychoanalytic Therapy
• Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
• Survivors > psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-167) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. The impact of trauma on the psyche : internal and external processes / Alessandra Lemma and Susan Levy -- Ch. 2. Why are we more afraid than ever? The politics of anxiety after Nine Eleven / Michael Rustin -- Ch. 3. Traumatic events and their impact on symbolic functioning / Caroline Garland -- Ch. 4. Containment and validation : working with survivors of trauma / Susan Levy -- Ch. 5. Playing a poor hand well : succumbing to or triumphing over developmental adversity : a study of adults sexually abused in care / Francesca Hume and Birgit Kleeberg -- Ch. 6. Bearing the unbearable : melancholia following severe trauma / Joanne Stubley -- Ch. 7. On hope's tightrope : reflections on the capacity for hope / Alessandra Lemma -- Ch. 8. Difficulties with potency post-trauma / Susan Levy and Linda Young -- Ch. 9. 'I smile at her and she smiles back at me' : between repair and re-enactment : the relationship between nurses and child patients in a South African pacdiatric burns unit / Louise Frenkel.

ISBN

0415950856

OCLC

56561149

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library