The Perversion of Loss: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Trauma

by Levy,Susan

• ISBN13: 9780415950855
• ISBN10: 0415950856
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-06-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Perversion of Lossis an edited collection of psychoanalytic papers written by clinicians in the field of trauma. The text offers a psychoanalytic perspective on trauma and its effects on psychic functioning. In particular, it draws on attachment theory to explain how trauma undermines psychic resilience both within individuals and also within broader communities and societies. This collection contextualizes external traumatic events and addresses both individual, internal responses as well as the impact of trauma on broader social relations.

Table of Contents

Series foreword	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	x
Contributors	xi
Introduction	xv
The impact of trauma on the psyche: internal and external processes	1	(20)
Alessandra Lemma
Susan Levy
Why are we more afraid than ever? The politics of anxiety after Nine Eleven	21	(16)
Michael Rustin
Traumatic events and their impact on symbolic functioning	37	(13)
Caroline Garland
Containment and validation: working with survivors of trauma	50	(21)
Susan Levy
Playing a poor hand well: succumbing to or triumphing over developmental adversity: a study of adults sexually abused in care	71	(16)
Francesca Hume
Birgit Kleeberg
Bearing the unbearable: melancholia following severe trauma	87	(21)
Joanne Stubley
On hope's tightrope: reflections on the capacity for hope	108	(19)
Alessandra Lemma
Difficulties with potency post-trauma	127	(18)
Susan Levy
Linda Young
`I smile at her and she smiles back at me': between repair and re-enactment: the relationship between nurses and child patients in a South African Paediatric Burns Unit	145	(18)
Louise Frenkel
References	163	(6)
Index	169