Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9780881634785 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 238 str.

Doris Brothers

Opis

Making use of relational systems theory, this book shows that experiences of uncertainty are continually transformed by the regulatory processes of everyday life such as feeling, knowing, forming categories, making decisions, using language, creating narratives, sensing time, remembering, forgetting, and fantasizing.

Spis treści

The Laboratory and the Labyrinth: An Introduction. Making the Unbearable Bearable: Regulation, Expectation and the Experience of Existential Uncertainty. Trauma as Exile: Terror, Shame and the Destruction of Certainty. Sanctuary on the Ledge: Trauma-Centered Treatment. Muting the Sirens of Certainty: Beyond Dichotomous Gender and the Oedipus Complex. To Die with Our Dead: Ghosts, Ghouls and the Denial of Life. Faith, False Gods and the Surrender of Certitude. In the Ashes of Burnout: Lost (and Found) Faith. Epilogue: Rewinding the Thread.