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Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma (Paperback)
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Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma (Paperback)
Series: The Library of Object Relations
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Rising above the polemics surrounding sexual and physical abuse,
David and Jill Savege Scharff bring a relational perspective to the
integration of psychoanalytic and trauma theories in order to
understand the effects of overwhelming physical and psychological
trauma, including sexual abuse, injury, and birth defect. The
Scharffs draw from their object relations therapy with individuals,
families, and couples recovering from trauma and abundance of
relevant clinical examples described in their characteristically
personal and vivid style. Their treatment approach, influenced by
Fairbairn, Klein, and Winnicott, is respectful of the patient's
experience. They advise avoiding premature interpretations that
impose their own reality on patients because this traumatizes them
just as their abuser did. In order to work well with these
traumatized people, the clinician must be able to tolerate
ambiguity and sustain long term therapy, for it takes the patience
of waiting and wondering to recover deeply repressed memories,
explore them thoroughly, and evaluate their meaning and importance
for the patient. The Scharffs' demonstration of clinical processes
helps therapists contain their own countertransference to trauma so
as to be fully present with their clients and consistently able to
confront abuse patterns in society. The object relations approach
not only deals with trauma's impact on the individual but views it
in its cultural and interpersonal context as well. Society
alternately emphasizes and ignores trauma so that an encapsulated
traumatic experience festers until the next eruption, just as
dissociative defenses segmentally protect and exaggerate traumatic
experience in the individual case. The Scharffs review Kramer's
Mahlerian approach, McDougall's insights into the silence of the
psyche and the words of the soma, and Anzieu's elaboration of the
body ego. They resuscitate Freud's seduction hypothesis and the
traumatic basis of the repetition compulsion. They compare and
contrast the concepts of re
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