Analysing Patients with Traumas

Separation, Illness, Violence

Franziska Henningsen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2017
Karnac Books (Verlag)
978-1-78220-335-3 (ISBN)

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The focus of this book is on detailed case histories of patients with severe traumas. The author takes us through the successive stages of analysis and gives us a graphic impression of the progress of her diagnostic and therapeutic insights into traumatic processes and their treatment. Her main interest is in the development of the transference/countertransference relationship. Traumatic experience has to be actualised within that relationship if it is to be treated successfully, only in this way can therapeutic change become a feasible proposition. Traumatic micro-processes and trauma-sequel phenomena in transference and countertransference are described and conceptualized. The author demonstrates her point with examples taken from clinical practice: illnesses experienced as traumatic; separation traumas; childhood experiences of violence; adult experiences of violence: war, torture, and displacement that can engender PTSD. This book is a genuinely original contribution to psychoanalytic treatment of traumas.

Franziska Henningsen, PhD, was a member of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV) and a training and supervising analyst at the Karl-Abraham-Institute in Berlin. She published numerous articles on psychoanalytic theory and practice with adults and children, especially on psychosomatic diseases, psychic trauma, homosexuality, East-West-Dialogue, the assessment of traumatized refugees. She took many important positions in the German Psychoanalytic Association (DPV) and was the Secretary of the DPV 2000-2004. She was the Chair of the IPA Committee for Outreach and Interdisciplinary Dialogue in 2004-2006. She was a member of the Program Committee for the IPA Congress 2013 in Prague. She was engaged in the development of psychoanalysis in East-Germany and East-Europe. She chaired for a long time the DPV East-West Committee and was a Member of the IPA Moscow Sponsoring Committee. She died in February 2015.

Part 1: Sick Children - Sick Mothers 1. "No sick children in my house today": death fears in children 2. "That's my mother's trauma, not mine": concretistic fusion, acting-out, symbolisation 3. "We aren't starving yet": silence in withdrawal and communicating in images 4. Splitting and fusion Part 2: Separation Traumas 5. "This is my daughter. Take good care of her!": From objectless anxiety to separation anxiety 6. "Everyone knows my mother. Everyone except me.": Concretistic fusion and denial of object loss 7. "The greatest danger comes from myself": destruction and guilt 8. Acting out and compulsive repetition Part 3: Experiences Of Violence And Abuse In Childhood 9. A helper in search of help: splitting and psychic reality 10. "I want no part of this hell": en route to perversion 11. "I can look after myself": destruction and consolation in one and the same object? 12. Love and hate Part 4: Experiences Of Violence And Abuse In Adulthood: Torture And War 13. Post-traumatic stress disorder 14. Negative countertransference: depletion and resilience Part 5: Conclusion 15. Consequences for psychoanalytic technique 16. Trauma in society and politics: an outlook

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 230 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	1-78220-335-4 / 1782203354
ISBN-13	978-1-78220-335-3 / 9781782203353
Zustand	Neuware