The Unbroken Soul Tragedy, Trauma, and Human Resilience

by Parens, Henri,; Blum, Harold P.; Akhtar, Salman

• ISBN13: 9780765705891
• ISBN10: 0765705893
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-28
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

How do individuals cope constructively with significant trauma? How do they recover from it? What factors seem most codetermining of coping with and recovering from trauma? Can these be not only identified but also influenced by our interventions? Addressing these questions-questions about human beings' capacity for resilience-is the prime challenge taken up in this book by an assortment of international psychoanalytic, attachment, and biological mental health theorists and clinicians. While mental health professionals are well trained to identify and treat psychopathology, little is taught about how to look for strengths in patients that assist them in their coping and that, on their own and with our nurturance, can foster their recovery. Some of the contributors to this volume, having themselves been subjected to severe trauma, speak of resilience both from within their own experience, from those around them, and from their work with traumatized patients.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
The Biopsychosocial Miracle of Human Resilience: An Overview	p. 1
Children in War and Their Resiliences	p. 21
Some Thoughts on Psychic Trauma and Its Treatment	p. 37
Resilience: Accommodation and Recovery	p. 47
On Genocidal Persecution and Resilience	p. 65
An Autobiographical Study of Resilience: Healing From the Holocaust	p. 85
Resilience, Sublimation, and Healing: Reactions to a Personal Narrative	p. 117
Psychological and Biological Factors Associated With Resilience to Stress and Trauma	p. 129
From Trauma to Resilience	p. 153
Resilience and Its Correlates	p. 171
Index	p. 193
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 199
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