Psychoanalysis Arena

The Power of Witnessing

Reflections, Reverberations, and Traces of the Holocaust: Trauma, Psychoanalysis, and the Living Mind

• Edited by Nancy R. Goodman, and Marilyn B. Meyers.

Published April 2012

Witnessing comes in as many forms as the trauma that gives birth to it. The Holocaust, undeniably one of the greatest traumatic events in recent human history, still resonates into the twenty-first century. The echoes that haunt those who survived continue to reach their children and others who did…
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The Silent Past and the Invisible Present

Memory, Trauma, and Representation in Psychotherapy

• By Paul Renn.
• Foreword by Judith Guss Teicholz.

Published January 2012

Drawing on research in the fields of cognitive and developmental psychology, attachment, trauma, and neuroscience, as well as 20 years in forensic and private practice, Paul Renn deftly illustrates the ways in which this research may be used to inform an integrated empirical/hermeneutic model…
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Awakening the Dreamer

Clinical Journeys

• By Philip M. Bromberg.

Published September 2010

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 is among our most gifted clinical writers, especially in his unique ability to record peripheral…
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Partners in Thought

Working with Unformulated Experience, Dissociation, and Enactment

• By Donnel B. Stern.

Published August 2009

Building on the innovative work of Unformulated Experience, Donnel B. Stern continues his exploration of the creation of meaning in clinical psychoanalysis with Partners in Thought. The chapters in this fascinating book are undergirded by the concept that the meanings which arise from…
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The Dissociative Mind

• By Elizabeth F. Howell.

Published April 2008

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 the dissociative mind. Dissociation, for her, suffuses everyday life; it is a relationally structured survival strategy…
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Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty

Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis

• By Doris Brothers.

Published November 2007

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 Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis, Doris Brothers urges a return to a trauma-centered psychoanalysis.…
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Trauma and Human Existence

Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections

• By Robert D. Stolorow.

Published June 2007

Trauma and Human Existence effectively interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma - the first pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and of the experience of emotional trauma in particular, and the second pertains to the recognition that the possibility of emotional…
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Wounded By Reality

Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma

• By Ghislaine Boulanger.

Published March 2007

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 onset trauma from childhood trauma, with which it is frequently confused. When catastrophic events overtake adult lives, they often…
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Prologue to Violence

Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime

• By Abby Stein.
• Foreword by Donnel B. Stern.

Published November 2006

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 and the criminal violence of adulthood. In Prologue to Violence, Abby Stein draws on the gripping narratives of…
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9/11 as a Collective Trauma

And Other Essays on Psychoanalysis and Society

• By Hans-Juergen Wirth.

Published January 2005

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 the "collective trauma" of 9/11. His meditation, which brings into its compass the psychic structure of…
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