Demons in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Genocide, Slavery and Extreme Trauma in Psychoanalytic Practice is the second of two volumes addressing the overwhelming, often unmetabolizable feelings related to mourning, both on an individual and mass scale. Authors in this volume explore the potency of ghosts, ghostliness and the darker, often grotesque aspects of these phenomena. It reveals how the most extreme types of trauma can continue to have effects across generations, and how these effects manifest in the consulting room.
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- Exploration of the effects of trauma across generations.
- Collection of clinical and theoretical papers.
- Insights into the challenges of severe childhood abuse and prolonged physical injury.
- Focus on the interplay of hauntings in analysts, patients, and culture.
- Relevant for a range of professionals, including psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.
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Essays in this volume consider traumas that have affected multiple generations of people, such as the Holocaust, experiences in the gulags, and the experience of slavery. Distinguished psychoanalysts explore the myriad forms of ghosts and the demonic, which interfere and disrupt the endlessly difficult psychic work of mourning. It will appeal to those specializing in bereavement and trauma and, on a broader level, to sociologists and historians interested in understanding means of coping with loss and grief on both an individual and larger scale basis.
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