Loss of the Assumptive World : A Theory of Traumatic Loss

ISBN-13: 9781583913130 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 336 str.

J. Kauffman; Jeffrey Kauffman

Opis

In the face of trauma, our assumptive world - the world experienced as normal or predictable - is seriously disrupted. This disruption, this loss of our assumptive world functions as a metaphor for traumatic loss in this volume, providing extraordinary insight into the psychology of trauma, loss and change. Loss of the Assumptive World: A Theory of Traumatic Loss builds on Ronnie Janoff-Bulman's new psychology of trauma and Colin Murray Parkes' principle of psychosocial change. It is a concept that allows for the close examination of the psychological disturbance that takes place in the wake of a traumatic event. The authors in this collection examine the loss of the assumptive world and its reconstruction from diverse theoretical perspectives including constructivist and narrative theory, Kohutian self-psychology, betrayal theory, psychoanalysis and coping theory. The diversity of perspectives and distinct interpretations illuminates the loss of the assumptive world concept and its clinical usefulness while articulating a spirit of hope and resilience in the face of traumatic loss.

Recenzje

"The chapters in this collection build on theories of the psychology of trauma and psychosocial chnage to discuss psychological disturbance that occurs after a traumatic loss."
"The assumptive world is our guide as we organize ourselves and our understanding of the world around us. Trauma attacks those assumptions. This book will help us bridge trauma by using the assumptive world even when it is under attack by the trauma that attacks us." -- The World Pastoral Care Center, Resources Hotline, September 2002
"A perfect text for an anxious time...an excellent addition to the literature on trauma. It will be helpful in understanding our clients as well as our responses to world events." -- Clinical Social Work Journal
"The richness of this book for the reader is in seeing the same concept from a number of points of view." -- Bereavement Care

Spis treści

Note from the Editor
Series Editor's Foreword
Foreword, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman
Acknowledgment
Introduction, Jeffrey Kauffman
Constructing Meaning in a World Broken by the Traumatic Loss of the Assumptive World: Meaning, Self, and Transcendence
1. Crisis of Meaning in Trauma and Loss, Irene Smith Landsman
2. The Meaning of Your Absence: Traumatic Loss and Narrative Reconstruction Robert A. Neimeyer, Luis Botella, Olga Herrero, Meritxell Pacheco, Sara Figueras and Luis Alberto Werner-Wildner
3. How Could God? Loss and the Spiritual Assumptive World, Kenneth Doka
4. Questionable Assumptions About Assumptive Worlds, Tom Attig
Relationships With Self and Others
5. The Harm of Trauma: Pathological Fear, Shattered Assumptions, or Betrayal? Anne P. DePrince and Jennifer J. Freyd
6. The Assumptive World in the Context of Transference Relationships: A Contribution to Grief Theory, Daniel Liechty
7. A Self-Psychological Study of Experiences of Near Loss of Life One's Own Life or the Dying or Death of a Close Relative: The Shattered-Fantasy Model of Traumatic Loss, Richard B. Ulman and Maria T. Miliora
Psychological Processes
8. Treatment of Violated Assumptive Worlds with EMDR, Roger M. Solomon
9. Coping with Challenges to Assumpitive Worlds, Charles A. Corr10. Beyond the Beveled Mirror: Mourning and Recovery from Childhood Maltreatment, Sandra L. Bloom
11. The "Curse" of Too Good a Childhood, Therese A. Rando
12. The Assumptive World of Children, Linda Goldman
Traumatic Loss and What Cannot Be Said
13. Safety and the Assumptive World: A Theory of Traumatic Loss, Jeffrey Kauffman
14. What Cannot Be Remembered or Forgotten, Henry Krystal
15. Parting Words: Trauma, Silence and Survival, Cathy Caruth
Postscript by Colin Murray Parkes
Index

O autorze

Jeffrey Kauffman is a psychotherapist in private practice in Philadelphia and an instructor at the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. He specializes in the treatment of grief and trauma.