Wounded by Reality: Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma

Author(s) : Ghislaine Boulanger

Part of Psychoanalysis in a New Key series - more in this series

Wounded by Reality: Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma

Book Details

  • Publisher : Analytic Press
  • Published : 2007
  • Category :
    Trauma and Violence
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 26094
  • ISBN 13 : 9780881634303
  • ISBN 10 : 0881634301
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The culmination of three decades of studying and treating survivors of adult onset trauma, "Wounded by Reality" is the first systematic attempt to differentiate adult onset trauma from childhood trauma, with which it is frequently confused. When catastrophic events overtake adult lives, they often scar the psyche in ways that psychodynamically oriented clinicians struggle to understand. For Ghislaine Boulanger, the enormous challenge of working with these patients is unsurprising. Survivors of major catastrophe, whether a natural disaster, a life-threatening assault, a serious accident, or an act of terrorism, experience a near-fatal disruption of fundamental aspects of self experience. The sense of agency, of affectivity, of bodily integrity, the capacity for self-reflection, the sense of time, and the ability to relate to others - all are called into question.

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