Wounded By Reality: Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma

by Boulanger; Ghislaine

• ISBN13: 9780881634303
• ISBN10: 0881634301
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

When catastrophic events overtake adult lives, they can often scar the psyche in ways that psychodynamic clinicians struggle to understand. The adult survivor of a catastrophe-whether a life-threatening assault, a serious accident, an act of terrorism, or a natural disaster-experiences a near fatal disruption of fundamental aspects of self experience. Many who have physically survived catastrophic trauma are uncertain that they have psychologically survived their ordeal.

Author Biography

Ghislaine Boulanger, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Toward a Psychodynamic Understanding of Adult Onset Trauma	p. 1
Catastrophic Dissociation and Childhood Trauma: Some Distinctions	p. 19
The Cost of Survival: Historical Perspectives on Adult Onset Trauma	p. 41
Wounded by Reality: The Relational Turn	p. 61
The Core Self in Crisis: Deconstructing Catastrophic Dissociation	p. 77
The Relational Self in Crisis: Further Deconstructing Catastrophic Dissociation	p. 95
From Voyeur to Witness: The Crisis in Symbolic Functioning During Catastrophic Dissociation	p. 113
The Ancient Mariner's Dilemma: Constructing a Trauma Narrative	p. 131
The Strength Found in Innocence: Resistance to Working Psychodynamically with Survivors of Adult Onset Trauma	p. 151
The Psychological Politics of Catastrophe: Local, Personal, and Professional	p. 169
References	p. 185
Index	p. 197
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