Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis is the first of two volumes that delves into the overwhelming, often unmetabolizable feelings related to mourning. The book uses clinical examples of people living in a state of liminality or ongoing melancholia. The authors reflect on the challenges of learning to move forward and embrace life over time, while acknowledging, witnessing and working through the emotional scars of the past.
Key Features
- Collection of clinical and theoretical papers.
- Accounts of the unpredictable effects of trauma within clinical work.
- Examination of 'ghosts' in transference and countertransference.
- Focus on both children and adults in various settings.
- Insights into processing unspeakable loss and its manifestations.
Additional Information
This book will be of interest to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, as well as social workers, family therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists. 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.
