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.
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 covers a wide range of clinical phenomena including early relational trauma, dissociative states, the Self Care System, unconscious communication, embodied countertransference, eroticisation, PTSD, creativity and cultural/social issues.
The Complexity of Trauma 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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Luisa Zoppi and Martin Schmidt
1. Feeling-Toned Complexes and the Treatment of Trauma. A Jungian Perspective
Luisa Zoppi
2. Trauma and the Inner World: The Self-Care System as a Resistance to Healing
Donald Kalsched
Part 1: Early Relational Trauma
3. In Dialogue with the Body: Reflections on Countertransference in Working with Early Relational Trauma
Daniela Eulert-Fuchs
4. The Body Roots of Traumatic Experiences: from Un-symbolized Body Memory to Bodily Reverie
Mariella Battipaglia and Giovanna Curatola
5. The Role of Unconscious Communication in Working with Early Relational Trauma and Borderline States
Lara Lagutina
Part 2: Dissociative Processes in Trauma
6. PTSD: Feeling-Toned Complexes and the Twilight of Self-Awareness
Gianluigi Di Cesare, Patrizia Brogna
7. Trauma and Dissociation: a Patient-Clinician Psychodynamic Perspective
Emanuela Mundo
8. Eroticized Trauma and its Manifestations in the Transference
Martin Schmidt
9. The Black Sun of a Transgenerational Trauma: Dissociative Processes, Affects and the Development of the Symbolic Function
Fabrizio Alfani
Part 3: Sociological and Analytic Aspects of Trauma
10. Social Trauma
Emilija Kiehl
11. Dysregulated and Con-fused: New Evolutionary Perspectives between Trauma and Resilience
Gianluigi Di Cesare and Chiara Caprì
12. Working with Cultural Trauma: the Archetype of the Wounded Healer in a Multicultural Analytic Couple
Julia Ovchinnikova
13. Waves, Tempests, Harbours: Pathways of Rescue through the Migrant Drama. A Jungian Approach when Facing Trauma in an Institutional Setting
Giancarlo Costanza
Part 4: Poetic and Creative Methods
14. Myths, Trauma and the Neurobiological Psyche
Roberta Perri
15. The Role of Memory and Creativity in the Healing Process of Trauma
Eduardo Carvallo
16. Understanding Trauma, Suffering, and Mourning from the Knowledge of the Heart
Heyong Shen