Main description:

Revised edition with additional chapter. This book, from the Tavistock Clinic Series, is about what follows the breakdown in functioning, either short or longer-term, provoked by a traumatic event. The authors offer a psychoanalytical understanding of the meaning of the trauma for an individual, illuminating theory with detailed clinical illustr

Contents:

Series Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- Introduction -- Thinking About Trauma -- Human Error -- Assessment and Consultation -- The Psychodynamic Assessment of Post-Traumatic States -- Preliminary Interventions -- Treatment in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy -- Trauma and Grievance -- Mental Work in a Trauma Patient -- Issues in Treatment -- Dreaming After a Traumatic Bereavement -- Identificatory Processes in Trauma -- Psychoanalysis -- Developmental Injury -- External Injury and the Internal World -- Groups -- The Traumatised Group -- Action, Identification and Thought in Post-traumatic States