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This book explores the experiences of terror states in the
consulting room. It examines how we might more adequately provide
support and legitimacy within the profession for work 'on the
edge', and explores the means by which individuals struggle to cope
with exposure to war zones.
This book is an outcome of the fourteenth John Bowlby Memorial
Conference held in London. The conference covers the theme of
understanding and treatment of the extreme state experienced in
psychosis and major dissociative disorders by clients who have not
benefited from psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
The fourteenth John Bowlby Memorial Conference, held in London in
March 2007, stood out as a special conference in a special year. It
coincided with the centenary of John Bowlby's birth, and the
conference organizing committee were conscious, in particular, of a
desire to celebrate the pioneering nature of his work, and the
profoundly significant contribution it has made to the
understanding, prevention and healing of emotional suffering.Recent
research in the fields of attachment and trauma is once more
pointing to the contribution of early relational failures to
extreme psychic suffering. Disorganised patterns of attachment,
identified in children whose caregivers are simultaneously a source
of fear and a source of comfort, have been linked to the
development of both dissociative and so called borderline disorders
in adult life.The conference aim was to bring together speakers
able to extend their thinking and bring insights from attachment
theory and psychoanalysis to the current debate about the links
between the traumatic disorganization of attachment relationships
and more severe mental and emotional distress--dissociative states,
borderline experiences and psychosis--as they emerge in clinical
practice.The papers in this volume have in common a committed
insistence upon placing human relationship at the center of their
accounts of extreme psychological suffering, both as the source of
injury and, most hopefully, as the potential agent of repair. In
this respect, they contribute fittingly in his centenary year to
the continuation and extension of John Bowlby's pioneering work for
the understanding, treatment and relief of such suffering.
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