The Reconstruction of Trauma: Its Significance in Clinical Work (Workshop Series of the American Psychoanalytic Association ; Monograph 2)

ISBN 10: 0823657868 / ISBN 13: 9780823657865

Published by Intl Universities Pr Inc

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Reconstruction of Trauma: Its Significance in Clinical Work (Workshop Series of the American Psychoanalytic Association ; Monograph 2)
• Publisher: Intl Universities Pr Inc
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823657868
• ISBN 13: 9780823657865
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket.

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This second monograph of the Workshop Series of the American Psychoanalytic Association achieves the same distinguished by the first monograph of the Series, Models of the Mind. In keeping with the spirit of its predecessor, this monograph again presents a diversity of theoretical views within psychoanalysis, but now regarding the reconstruction of trauma. The editor, Dr. Arnold Rothstein, succinctly organizes these views into three perspectives: the hermeneutic, the developmental, and the adaptational. Proponents of each perspective present detailed and poignant clinical examples to support their theoretical understanding of trauma. The respective theory can then be seen to significantly influence the technical approach to the reconstruction of trauma, and the conceptualization of the mode of therapeutic action with each patient. Only rarely in psychoanalytic literature has the complex interrelationship between theory and technique been illustrated so vividly by so many gifted clinicians in a single volume - Richard C. Simons, M.D. (from book's flyleaf)