Integration and Self Healing: Affect, Trauma, Alexithymia

ISBN-13: 9780881631807 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 408 str.

Henry Krystal;Henry Krystal

Opis

A work on psychic trauma and primitive affective (emotional) disturbance. The author uses the experience of his work with over 1000 Holocaust survivors in this effort to understand massive psychic trauma.

Spis treści

Part I: Emotions. Clinical Aspects of Affect. Affect Tolerance. Genetic View of Affects. Adolescence and Affect Development. The Model Affect. The Hedonic Element in Affectivity. Activating Aspects of Emotions. Part II: Trauma. Reality. Trauma and Affect. Self-Representation and the Capacity for Self-Care. Trauma and the Stimulus Barrier. Part III: Alexitymia and Posttraumatic States. Integration and Self-Healing in Posttraumatic States. Alexithymia. Assessing Alexithymia. Therapeutic Considerations in Alexithymia.

O autorze

Henry Krystal, M.D.