Beschreibung:
As clinicians we want to further our understanding of work with adult clients who have experienced massive and cumulative psychic trauma to which there is no possible adaptive response strategy. This monograph of the 2008 John Bowlby Memorial Conference brings together papers by leading contributors to the field of attachment and trauma that explore the means by which individuals struggle to cope with exposure to war zones, both large scale conflicts and societal breakdown, and the domestic war zones where adults and children experience violence and sexual abuse. These papers seek to further our understanding of the intergenerational transmission of experiences of trauma, as in the examples of the Holocaust and slavery. In times where talk of terror is everywhere, psychotherapists offer a clinical perspective on terror which may translate to the world at large.
Introduction -- Attachment theory and the John Bowlby Memorial Lecture 2008: a short history -- A white boy goes to Mississippi -- Intergenerational transmission of massive trauma: the Holocaust -- The place of fear in attachment theory and psychoanalysis: the fifteenth John Bowlby Memorial Lecture -- States of terror and terrorist states: oppression and liberation in political and therapeutic contexts -- Stepping into the void of dissociation: a therapist and a client in search of a meeting place -- Introduction to The Bowlby Centre