Psychoanalysis Arena

The Dissociative Mind

• By Elizabeth F. Howell

Drawing on the pioneering work of Janet, Freud, Sullivan, and Fairbairn and making extensive use of recent literature, Elizabeth Howell develops a comprehensive model of...

Published April 10th 2008 by Routledge.

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Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty

Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis

• By Doris Brothers

Since trauma is a thoroughly relational phenomenon, it is highly unpredictable, and cannot be made to fit within the scientific framework Freud so admired. In...

Published November 29th 2007 by Routledge.

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Trauma and Human Existence

Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections

• By Robert D. Stolorow

Trauma and Human Existence effectively interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma - the first pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and...

Published June 27th 2007 by Routledge.

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Wounded By Reality

Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma

• By Ghislaine Boulanger

The culmination of three decades of studying and treating survivors of adult onset trauma, Wounded by Reality is the first systematic attempt to differentiate adult...

Published March 2nd 2007 by Routledge.

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Prologue to Violence

Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime

• By Abby Stein

Despite mounting references to the "transgenerational transmission of violence," we still lack a compelling understanding of the linkage between the interpersonal violence of early life...

Published November 17th 2006 by Routledge.

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Awakening the Dreamer

Clinical Journeys

• By Philip M. Bromberg

In Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys, Philip Bromberg continues the illuminating explorations into dissociation and clinical process begun in Standing in the Spaces (1998). Bromberg...

Published June 14th 2006 by Routledge.

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9/11 as a Collective Trauma

And Other Essays on Psychoanalysis and Society

• By Hans-Juergen Wirth

Hans Juergen Wirth, a leading German psychoanalyst and editor of the journal Psychosozial, brings cultural breadth, historical perspective, and analytic astuteness to bear in considering...

Published January 3rd 2005 by Routledge.

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Playing Hard at Life

A Relational Approach to Treating Multiply Traumatized Adolescents

• By Etty Cohen

Playing Hard at Life brings contemporary relational thinking to bear on the psychodynamic treatment of a notably difficult group of young patients. Working with New...

Published July 1st 2003 by Routledge.

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September 11

Trauma and Human Bonds

• Edited by Susan Coates, Jane Rosenthal, Daniel Schechter

Drawing on research from a variety of domains - clinical studies of trauma, developmental psychopathology, interpersonal psychobiology, epidemiology, and social policy - September 11: Trauma...

Published June 1st 2003 by Routledge.

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Unformulated Experience

From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis

• By Donnel B. Stern

In this powerful and wonderfully accessible meditation on psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and social constructivism, Donnel Stern explores the relationship between two fundamental kinds of experience: explicit...

Published April 1st 2003 by Routledge.

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