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Playing Hard at Life - A Relational Approach to Treating Multiply Traumatized Adolescents (Paperback)
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Playing Hard at Life - A Relational Approach to Treating Multiply Traumatized Adolescents (Paperback)
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Playing Hard at Life brings contemporary relational thinking to
bear on the psychodynamic treatment of a notably difficult group of
young patients. Working with New York City teenagers who have
survived the wars of inner-city life and Israeli teenage soldiers
who have survived the wars of the Middle East, author Etty Cohen
documents the extraordinary challenges of forming a treatment
alliance with these shattered youngsters, of engaging them
psychodynamically, and of working toward a viable termination. The
result is not only a poignant record of courage and committment (on
the part of patient and therapist alike), but also a valuable
extension of modern trauma theory to adolescence as a developmental
stage with its own challenges and requirements. The heart and
strength of Cohen's book is her vivid documentation of hands-on
encounters with her adolescent patients, seen both individually and
in group. Cohen makes plain that, with young people so horrendously
traumatized, treatment assures a necessarily improvisational
character. And yet, she argues, even in the type of pragmatic
encounters dictated by massive and repeated trauma, contemporary
relational theory provides a compass with which to navigate through
the rocky shoals of the clinical work. Again and again, the reader
is shocked by just how much happened to these adolescents,
astonished at how resilient they proved to be, and, finally, moved
by how much Cohen was able to accomplish with them. Her relational
approaches to these treatments, teamed with her realization that
work with multiply traumatized adolescents cannot be structured in
the manner of conventioanl therapy, makes this book an invaluable,
timely, and deeply sobering contribution to the literature.
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