|
Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy
|
Buy Now
Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,961
Discovery Miles 19 610
|
|
|
Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma (Paperback)
Series: The Library of Object Relations
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
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
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(2)
