Complexity of Trauma

<p><b>Dedicated to Daniela Eulert-Fuchs</b> this important volume offers a broad and in-depth overview of how to understand and treat trauma from a Jungian perspective written by internationally recognized experts in the field of Jungian and traditional psychoanalysis.</p><p>It applies C.G. Jung’s concept of the ‘complex’ and his understanding of splitting processes of the psyche to trauma. Traversing a range of pertinent themes including archetypal defences primary narcissistic wounding somatic symptoms symbolic representation and processing transference and types of memory the book features a variety of voices from different theoretical perspectives with each contributor offering clinical examples and lessons from their experiences working with patients. Chapters cover a wide range of clinical phenomena including early relational trauma dissociative states the Self-care System unconscious communication embodied countertransference eroticization PTSD creativity and cultural/social issues.</p><p><i>The Complexity of Trauma</i> is key reading for psychoanalysts and therapists as well as for researchers students and trainees in schools of psychodynamic psychotherapy and those interested in working with trauma.</p>