Main description:

Focus on trauma, which is a perennial hot topic * Book is built around a single case study * Offers clear guidance to working psychoanalytically with severely traumatised patients in challenging settings

Contents:

1. Introduction, 1.1. Attachment disorder, 2. Therapeutic accompaniment, 3. The budding bond, 3.1. The construction of an attachment: defining the relationship, 4. First trimester's wait: who are we?, 4.1. The guiding-accompanying-generating a wish for treatment dance, 4.2. The relationships of confusing affects, 5. Second trimester's wait: where do we come from?, 5.1. The therapeutic accompaniment system as a fluctuating space, 5.2. Work outside the therapeutic setting, 6. Third trimester's wait: problems in communication, 6.1. Traps and paradoxes of abuse: the communicative significance of play, 7. Autumn: crisis as danger and opportunity, 7.1. Times of crises and the dilemmas of adoption-foster care, 8. Winter: silent speech, 8.1. Appearances of a different nature: the surrogate family, 9. Spring: responsibility and freedom, 9.1. Angsty freedom, 10. Creating a time of our own: China and Pandora's box, 10.1. Chinese culture: an experience beyond the culinary, 10.2. The disintegrating environment, fears and flights to other worlds, 11. Running out of time: where to now?, 11.1. In search of a dynamic equilibrium and the new technologies, 11.2. Towards a reparative attachment, 12. Individuation and autonomy, 12.1. Separation, attachment and time to stop