The Perversion of Loss

This edited collection of psychoanalytic papers written by clinicians in the field of trauma offers a perspective on trauma and its effects on psychic functioning. In particular, it draws on attachment theory to explain how trauma undermines psychic resilience.

First sentence: On September 11 2001 an ashen-faced patient attended her session and informed her therapist that two jets had ploughed into New York's Twin Towers and one into the Pentagon, destroying them completely and in the process 'killing 25,000 people'.

Year

2004

Language

English

Publisher

Routledge

Editions

1

Pages

172

ISBN

9780415950855

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