Animal Killer

Transmission of War Trauma From One Generation to the Next

Vamik D. Volkan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

118 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-10237-1 (ISBN)

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A psychoanalytic process from its beginning to its termination is described to illustrate crucial technical issues in the treatment of individuals with narcissistic personality organization and the countertransference manifestations such patients stimulate in the analyst. The subject of this book exhibited cruelty to confirm and stabilize his grandiosity. His internal world was a "reservoir" of the deposited image of his father figure, an individual most severely traumatized during World War II. The patient was given the task to be a mass-"killer" of animals instead of being a hunted one.This book most clearly illustrates how the transgenerational transmission of trauma takes place and how the impact of war continues in future generations. The book also provides an understanding of a special kind of psychological motivation that directs a person to use weapons for mass killing. In this era of pluralism in psychoanalysis, providing the story of a psychoanalytic case in its duration opens ways for comparison and discussion of technique and can be used as a teaching tool.

Vamik D Volkan

About this Book , Foreword , My behind-the-scenes work with Peter , What makes a person live in an “island empire”? , Gregory’s birdhouse and Peter’s raccoon experience , Black bears and taxidermy , “Empty sleep”, therapeutic regression, and “crucial juncture” experiences , Operation Desert Storm, sinking a psychological submarine, and the inability to shoot a black bear , Mourning and oedipal issues , A “second look”, freeing a bird, and the end of psychoanalytic work

Erscheinungsdatum	31.07.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	376 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	0-367-10237-4 / 0367102374
ISBN-13	978-0-367-10237-1 / 9780367102371
Zustand	Neuware