Analysts in the Trenches: Streets, Schools, War Zones

ISBN-13: 9780881633450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 331 str.

Bruce Sklarew; Stuart W. Twemlow; Sallye M. Wilkinson

Opis

The horrific events of 9/11 and its sequelae have reinforced what thoughtful analysts have long known: that they have a responsibility to respond to the complex social and educational issues arising in their communities -- to function, that is, as community psychoanalysts. Analysts in the Trenches vividly illustrates what socially engaged analysts can offer to violent and disturbed communities. Contributors bring analytic expertise to bear on the emotional sequelae to violence, including sexual and physical abuse; to multiple and traumatic loses; and to learning inhibitions. They also explore and devise community responses to the scapegoating of classes and groups, to homelessness, and to variations in family structures. more on active engagement than interpretation, but they retain a psychodynamic orientation to the issues they confront. Within this interventionist, group-focused approach, analytically oriented clinicians function as team members more intent on changing how a group functions than in interpreting its underlying dynamics. Analysts in the Trenches exemplifies this approach in relation to challenging problems on the streets, in the schools, and in the aftermath of war. It provides heartening testimony to the relevance of psychodynamic thinking in the post-9/11 world and will spur professional readers to develop their own programs of community involvement.

Spis treści

Introduction
1. Reverberations of Danger, Trauma, and PTSD on Group Dynamics
2. Life Without Walls: Violence and Trauma Among the Homeless
3. From the Events of History to a Sense of History: Aspects of Transgenerational Trauma and Brutality in the African-American Experience
4. Concurrent Intervention During Massive Community Trauma: An Analyst's Experience at Ground Zero
5. After the Violence: The Internal World and Linking Objects of a Refugee Family
6. Topeka's Healthy Community Initiative: A Psychoanalytic Model for Change
7. A Retired Psychoanalyst Volunteers to Promote School-Based Mental Health
8. The Uses of Aggression: Healing the Wounds of War in a Community Context
9. The School-Based Mourning Project: A Preventive Intervention in the Cycle of Inner-City Violence
10. Psychoanalytic Responses to Violent Trauma: The Child Development-Community Policing Partnership
11. Children's Exposure to Community Violence: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Evaluation and Treatment
12. Early Mental Health Intervention and Prevention: The Implications for Government and the Wider Community