Living With Terror, Working With Trauma A Clinician's Handbook

by Knafo, Danielle; Awwad, Elia; Ayalon, Ofra; Bar-On, Dan; Benyakar, Mordechai; Berger, Rony; Bergmann, Maria V.; Bergmann, Martin S.; Blum, Harold P.; Cannon, John T.; Eigen, PhD, Michael,; Gentile, Katie; Haas, Ann Pollinger; Hendin, Herbert; Herman, Judi

• ISBN13: 9780765703781
• ISBN10: 0765703785
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-23
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

This book addresses the ways that mental health practitioners can assist survivors of terrorism. Drawing upon the experience of leading practitioners and renowned experts throughout the world, this edited volume explores the most innovative methods currently employed to help people heal - and even grow - from traumatic experiences. It argues for a multi-dimensional approach to understanding and treating the effects of terror-related trauma.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(18)
PART I: THE MEANING OF TRAUMA
1 Psychic Trauma and Traumatic Object Loss	19	(16)
Harold P. Blum
2 Complex PTSD: A Syndrome in Survivors of Prolonged and Repeated Trauma	35	(16)
Judith Lewis Herman
3 Psychic Trauma and Fears of Annihilation	51	(16)
Marvin Hurvich
4 Resilience: Accommodation and Recovery	67	(16)
Henry Krystal
5 Disruption: Individual and Collective Threats	83	(28)
Mordechai Benyakar and Danielle Knafo
PART II: LIVING WITH TERROR
6 Is Hiroshima Our Text?	111	(8)
Robert J. Lifton
7 Cambodians and Massive Trauma: What We Have Learned after Twenty Years	119	(16)
J. David Kinzie
8 Five Wars, Five Traumas: Experience and Insight from Clinical Work in Israel's Trenches	135	(20)
Mordechai Benyakar
9 Wounds of War: The Aftermath of Combat in Vietnam	155	(16)
Herbert Hendin and Ann Pollinger Haas
10 Children's Responses to Terrorist Attacks	171	(30)
Ofra Ayalon
11 Defeated Dreams: The Tragedy of Survivors	201	(32)
Elia Awwad
PART III: WORKING WITH TRAUMA
12 Early Interventions with Victims of Terrorism	233	(40)
Rony Berger
13 Posttraumatic Therapy in the Age of Neuroscience	273	(10)
Bessel van der Kolk
14 Optimizing Affect Function in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Trauma	283	(14)
Henry Krystal
15 An Eye for an Eye: Fantasies of Revenge in the Aftermath of Trauma	297	(16)
Nina K. Thomas
16 A Humanistic Approach to the Psychology of Trauma	313	(18)
Ilene Serlin and John T. Cannon
17 Empathic Strain, Compassion Fatigue, and Countertransference in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD	331	(38)
John P. Wilson
18 The Complexities of Working with Terror	369
B. Hudnall Stamm, Craig Higson-Smith, and Amy C. Hudnall
PART IV: SEPTEMBER	11	(468)
19 Reflections on September 11	401	(14)
Martin S. Bergmann
20 Responses of the Mental Health Community to the World Trade Center Disaster	415	(14)
Charles B. Strozier and Katie Gentile
21 Large Group Destruction: A Group Analyst at Ground Zero	429	(20)
Bennett Roth
22 Terrorism on U.S. Soil: Remembering Past Trauma and Retraumatization	449	(12)
Maria V. Bergmann
23 Skyscrapers and Bones: Memorials to Dead Objects in the Culture of Desire	461	(18)
Isaac Tylim
PART V: LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE
24 Traumatized Societies and Psychological Care: Expanding the Concept of Preventive Medicine	479	(20)
Vamik D. Volkan
25 Storytelling as a Way to Work Through Intractable Conflicts: The TRT German-Jewish Experience and Its Relevance to the Palestinian-Israeli Context	499	(20)
Dan Bar-On and Fattma Kassem
26 No Amount of Suffering	519	(14)
Michael Eigen
27 Terror and Forgiveness	533	(32)
Robert Karen
28 Creative and Clinical Transformations of Trauma: Private Pain in the Public Domain	565	(24)
Danielle Knafo
Index	589	(8)
About the Contributors	597