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Donald Kalsched - The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit - 9780415123297 - V9780415123297
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The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit

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Description for The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit Paperback. Drawing on answers revealed to him through the dreams, fantasies and interpersonal struggles of his traumatized clients, the author shows how we can use the resulting enhanced understanding to help victims of early trauma. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.

Donald Kalsched explores the interior world of dream and fantasy images encountered in therapy with people who have suffered unbearable life experiences. He shows how, in an ironical twist of psychical life, the very images which are generated to defend the self can become malevolent and destructive, resulting in further trauma for the person. Why and how this happens are the questions the book sets out to answer.
Drawing on detailed clinical material, the author gives special attention to the problems of addiction and psychosomatic disorder, as well as the broad topic of dissociation and its treatment. By focusing ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Weight
373g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415123297
SKU
V9780415123297
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Donald Kalsched
Donald Kalsched is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute, New York.

Reviews for The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit
'This book makes exciting reading. Scholarship linking many different schools of psychotherapists is combined imaginatively with the main theory and with clinical examples ... I warmly recommend this book.' - Journal of the Brisith Association of Psychotherapists 'Don Kalsched's book is a tour de force ... one finds oneself referring to it constatnly when working with these extremely difficult, ... Read more

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