ABSTRACT
The new diagnosis of Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder presents diagnostic and treatment challenges that need to be grappled with, since, in a troubled world, it is increasingly important to understand the impact and aftermath of traumatic experiences and, crucially, how to work with those affected by them.
In Complex Trauma, Joanne Stubley and Linda Young have assembled a fascinating range of approaches in order to explore the questions of understanding and intervention. They detail the relevance of an applied psychoanalytic approach, both in the Tavistock Trauma Service and, more broadly, in illuminating understanding of traumatized individuals. The book includes chapters related to the impact of trauma on the body, as well as on the mind, incorporating neurobiological and attachment theory to develop ideas on the impact and aftermath of complex trauma. A number of specialist areas of trauma work are covered within this volume, including work with adolescents, with refugees and asylum seekers, with military veterans, and with survivors of child sexual abuse.
The editors bring together chapters that will be of interest to those working with traumatized individuals in a variety of settings and using different modalities. The central importance of relationships, as understood within the psychoanalytic model, is depicted throughout as being at the heart of understanding and working with traumatic experience.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|84 pages
The clinical work
chapter Chapter Three|18 pages
Complex trauma: working with other modalities within a psychoanalytic frame
part II|113 pages
Applications and Specific Populations
chapter Chapter Six|18 pages
Designing and working in a service for women with historical child sexual abuse
chapter Chapter Seven|13 pages
Relational trauma and oppression: clinical work with young men groomedand sexually abused as children
part III|44 pages
Trauma as Embodied Experience
chapter Chapter Eleven|17 pages
The game of football: psychoanalytic reflections on love, hope, and resilience
chapter Chapter Twelve|14 pages
Therapeutic yoga and psychotherapy for facilitating posttraumatic growth
chapter Chapter Thirteen|11 pages
Trauma and the body: a psychoanalytic reading of Almodovar's The Skin I Live In
part IV|41 pages
Symbolization, Loss, and Mourning