Mourning the Person One Could Have Become

On the Road from Trauma to Authenticity

Witold Simon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

286 Seiten

2011
Jason Aronson Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7657-0845-8 (ISBN)

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This book introduces the concept of the “Person One Could Have Become” and shows the importance of mourning for individuals with traumatic experiences. The Person One Could Have Become is conceptualized as personality and physical characteristics that could have emerged if an individual, at the right time, had received or opted for an appropriate quantity and quality of stimuli and experiences, which in turn would have enabled the person to make more mature and independent choices. Consequences of potentially traumatic events bear non-linear, meta-folding, and multicontextual meaning unique to each being-in-the-world. Many people with a history of trauma tend to mystify their existence in order to survive.

This book contains an overview of the ramifications of abuse and neglect on personality, as well as the consequences of pregnancy loss and the specific loss of possibility and its co-occurrence with abuse and neglect. It looks at examples from daily life and two cases of traumatized individuals who differ in their background and experience of trauma, as well as in their struggles during psychotherapy. This book is not intended as a treatment manual, nor does it advocate for any particular therapeutic approach. It is, rather, an encouragement of a way of living. Indeed, a reasonable mourning of the Person One Could Have Become may set the individual free—also such with the history of trauma—for the road beyond the traditional psychotherapy outcome, the road toward authenticity.

Witold Simon, MD, PhD, CGP, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Neurotic Disorders and Psychotherapy, at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland.

Preface
Chapter I. Clash of determinism and existentialism: Causal explanations versus contextual meanings
Chapter II. The shattering ramifications of abuse and neglect
Chapter III. Potential traumatic consequences of pregnancy loss
Chapter IV. The anamnesis of two individuals experienced by trauma
Chapter V. The Person One Could Have Become
Chapter VI. Mourning the Person One Could Have Become
Chapter VII. The clinical application of mourning the Person One Could Have Become: the NEST group psychotherapy
Chapter VIII. The role of the therapist in mourning the Person One Could Have Become
Chapter IX. Supervision of the process of mourning the Person One Could Have Become
Chapter X. The clients’ process of defining and mourning the Person One Could Have Become
Chapter XI. Long-term ramifications: Continuous process of transformation beyond the termination of psychotherapy
Chapter XII. Aftermath of clients’ mourning processes
Chapter XIII. Critique of the concept of mourning the Person One Could Have Become
Conclusions
References
Index
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Verlagsort	Northvale NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 241 mm
Gewicht	576 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7657-0845-0 / 0765708450
ISBN-13	978-0-7657-0845-8 / 9780765708458
Zustand	Neuware