Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma (The Library of Object Relations) - Softcover

Scharff, Jill Savege; Scharff, David E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765704064 ISBN 13: 9780765704061

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc., 2008

Synopsis

The Scharffs draw from their object relations therapy with individuals, families, and couples recovering from trauma and abundance of relevant clinical examples described in tehir 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 tha 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 longterm 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. Object relations theory offers a bridge between individual and societal experiences of trauma and prepares the way for a less dissociated response to trauma issues among the mental health professions and their psychotherapy literature.

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About the Author

Jill Savege Scharff, M.D., co-director of the International Institute of Object Relations Therapy, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University, and teaches child analysis at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.
David E. Scharff, M. D., co-director of the International Institute of Object Relations Therapy, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University, and a teaching analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765704064
• ISBN 13: 9780765704061
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390