Terrorism and the Psychoanalytic Space: International Perspectives from Ground Zero

by Cancelmo, Joseph A.

• ISBN13: 9780944473634
• ISBN10: 0944473636
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Joan Hoffenberg
Hattie Myers
Conference Participants	xi
Introduction: Terrorism and the Psychoanalytic Space: International Perspectives from Ground Zero. Conceptual Crossroads---Clinical Challenges	1	(4)
Joseph A. Cancelmo
Isaac Tylim
Joan Hoffenberg
Hattie Myers
Opening Address	5	(7)
Joseph A. Cancelmo
PART I CONCEPTUAL CROSSROADS: THE ALTERED PSYCHOANALYTIC SPACE. Reflections on the Fate of Unsymbolized Trauma and the Interplay of Objective and Subjective Experience
Introduction	9	(3)
Isaac Tylim
Terrorism and the Psychoanalytic Space	12	(6)
Lord John Alderdice
The Altered Psychoanalytic Space	18	(10)
Shmuel Erlich
Social Catastrophe and Mental Space	28	(9)
Marcello Vinar
PART II DEVELOPMENTAL EFFECTS ON CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS: DEVELOPMENTAL AND EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE EXPERIENCE OF TERRORISM. Trauma Born Failure to Symbolize and Mourn and its Impact on Identity Formation
Introduction	35	(2)
Maribeth Rourke
Children and War: Consequences and Treatment	37	(8)
Myrna Gannage
Terror, Trauma and Identity Formation	45	(9)
Shmuel Erlich
Discussion: Developmental Effects of Terror and Trauma	54	(5)
Irving Steingart
The Effect of Terror on the Capacity for Symbol Formation: Case Studies from Afghanistan and New York	59	(9)
Martha Bragin
Terror, Persecution and Dread Revisited	68	(7)
Karen Komisar Proner
A Young Girl's Reaction to 9/11	75	(10)
Laura Kleinerman
PART III CLINICAL CHALLENGES: Navigating the Altered Psychoanalytic Space
Introduction	81	(4)
Ruth Stein
Vengeance and Sacrifice in the Therapeutic Setting	85	(7)
Caroline Garland
The Setting and the Psychoanalytic Field in Social Disasters, War and Terrorism	92	(10)
Mordechai Benyakar
Mental Space and Survival in Times of Terror	102	(13)
Sverre Varvin
PART IV PSYCHOANALYSTS' RESPONSE TO TERRORISM AND THE EXPANSION OF THE PSYCHOANALYTIC SPACE
Working as a Psychoanalyst in the Midst of Violence and Terror	115	(4)
Naama Kushnir-Barash
Understanding Terrorism at Close Quarters	119	(5)
Lord John Alderdice
Hattie Myers
The Frame and the Psychoanalytic Space in the Face of War and Terror	124	(3)
Mordechai Benyakar
Danielle Knafo
Perspectives from Ground Zero: Snapshots of Coping (or not) from High School and College Students	127	(7)
Beth Hart
Herbert Krauss
In the Aftermath of September 11: The Analyst as Container for the Parents in the Real and Imagined Threat to a Child	134	(4)
Phyllis Beren
Corliss Parker
The Destabilization of Attachment Processes in Children and Adolescents: Clinical Material from the Oklahoma City Bombing	138	(8)
Ann Early
Kay Ludwig
Thinking Analytically About the Unthinkable: Framing Crisis Management in a Psychoanalytic Paradigm with Special Emphasis on ``Debriefing'' and the Importance of ``Forbidden'' Affect	146	(3)
Abby Adams-Silvan
Terrorism Comes to the Analytic Consulting Room: Methods and Techniques of Coping Based on Diagnostic Assessments	149	(4)
Maria Bergmann
From the Loss of the Leader to the Leader of the Lost: The Patient Escorts the Therapist on a Guided Tour of Hell	153	(2)
K. William Fried
Edith Schwartz
Marginalized Groups: Challenges to Healthy Identity	155	(4)
Gilead Nachmani
Avram Bornstein
Elizabeth Hegeman
Gilead Nachmani
Alan Grey
The Aftermath of Survival: Effects on Survivors, Perpetrators and the Next Generation	159	(4)
Deena Harris
Instances of Genocide in the Modern World: The Bosnian and Jewish Holocausts	163	(3)
Valentina Vrtikapa
Leon Anisfeld
The Treatment of Traumatized Refugees	166	(5)
Sverre Varvin
Subjectivity Under Extreme Conditions	171	(2)
Marcello Vinar
Isaac Tylim
IPTAR: Origins, Structure and Functions	173	(2)
Notes on Contributors	175	(7)
Index	182