Analysis of the Incest Trauma: Retrieval, Recovery, Renewal

ISBN-13: 9781782202219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 368 str.

Susan Klett; Arnold W. Rachman

Opis

Childhood sexual abuse within the family of origin and society's institutions, such as the church, education, sports and the world of celebrity has been neglected as a significant issue by psychoanalysis and society. The incest trauma needs to be understood as one of the most significant problems of contemporary society.

This book is an attempt to re-establish incest trauma as a significant psychological disorder by tracing the evolutionary trajectory of psychoanalysis from the Seduction Theory to the Oedipal Therapy to the Confusion of Tongues Theory. By examining the theoretical, emotional, interpersonal and political issues involved in Freud's abandoning the Seduction Hypothesis and replacing it with the Oedipal Complex, we can see how system building became more important than the emotional welfare of children. In a series of chapters we will demonstrate this neglect of the incest trauma. Several case studies, using a Relational Perspective informed by the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis, illustrate the need to use the Confusion of Tongues theory of trauma, originated by Ferenczi as well his idea of expanding the analytic method to include non-interpretative measures to successfully analyze the incest trauma.

Spis treści

Foreword , The intellectual and emotional journey toward understanding the incest trauma , Psychoanalysis’s neglect of the incest trauma , Confusion of tongues drama: the suppression of the first theory and method for the treatment of the incest trauma , Confusion of tongues theory of childhood sexual trauma , A pioneering analysis of the incest trauma: Sándor Ferenczi’s analysis of Elizabeth Severn , Listening to the voices of the abused , Incest trauma, psychoanalysis, and the brain , Analysis of an incest trauma in a difficult case , Analysis of the incest trauma through the drawings of an outsider artist , View from the couch: an analysand’s experience of trauma , Triumph of the human spirit: the emotional courage of a young woman who confronted her incest trauma , Countertransference encounters: the analyst’s experience of trauma analysis , Understanding an erotic transference as an enactment of a childhood incest trauma , Education, training, and supervision for analyzing the incest trauma

O autorze

Susan A Klett