Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma (The Library of Object Relations)
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The Scharffs draw from their object relations therapy with individuals, families, and couples recovering from trauma and abundance of relevant clinical examples described in tehir characteristically personal and vivid style. Their treatment approach, influenced by Fairbairn, Klein, and Winnicott, is respectful of the patient's experience. They advise avoiding premature interpretations tha impose their own reality on patients because this traumatizes them just as their abuser did. In order to work well with these traumatized people, the clinician must be able to tolerate ambiguity and sustain longterm therapy, for it takes the patience of waiting and wondering to recover deeply repressed memories, explore them thoroughly, and evaluate their meaning and importance for the patient. Object relations theory offers a bridge between individual and societal experiences of trauma and prepares the way for a less dissociated response to trauma issues among the mental health professions and their psychotherapy literature.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1568212925
ISBN13:9781568212920
Release Date:July 1977
Publisher:Jason Aronson, Inc.
Length:390 Pages
Weight:1.66 lbs.
Dimensions:9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"
Customer Reviews
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Case studies about Trauma
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
This is an honest book about the failures and triumphs of object relations therapy with trauma survivors. Trauma cases discussed in this book involved medical traumas and incest traumas. The first half of the book is an explanation of the different forms of dissociation. It also talks about the pros and cons of evoking repressed memories of trauma. The author gives her thoughts on repression as well. The author doesn't go into too much details about object relations technique or how she thought it helped her clients. I took off one star for that reason. This book was touching, shocking, and at times very sad. It made me realize that people survive through trauma in different ways, and handle unwanted and negative emotion in different and unproductive ways; and I grew an appeciation for trauma survivors and a certain amount of sympathy.
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