Terror within and without : attachment and disintegration : clinical work on the edge : the John Bowlby Memorial Conference Monograph 2008 / edited by Judy Yellin and Orit Badouk Epstein.
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION Attachment and Disintegration: Clinical Work on the Edge; CHAPTER ONE Attachment theory and the John Bowlby Memorial Lecture 2008: a short history; CHAPTER TWO A white boy goes to Mississippi; CHAPTER THREE Intergenerational transmission of massive trauma: the Holocaust; CHAPTER FOUR The place of fear in attachment theory and psychoanalysis: the fifteenth John Bowlby Memorial Lecture; CHAPTER FIVE States of terror and terrorist states: oppression and liberation in political and therapeutic contexts.
CHAPTER SIX Stepping into the void of dissociation: a therapist and a client in search of a meeting placeAPPENDIX I Reading list; APPENDIX II Introduction to The Bowlby Centre; INDEX.
Summary
As clinicians we want to further our understanding of work with adult clients who have experienced massive and cumulative psychic trauma to which there is no possible adaptive response strategy. This monograph of the 2008 John Bowlby Memorial Conference brings together papers by leading contributors to the field of attachment and trauma that explore the means by which individuals struggle to cope with exposure to war zones, both large scale conflicts and societal breakdown, and the domestic war zones where adults and children experience violence and sexual abuse. These papers seek to further o.
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