Analysis of the Incest Trauma
- London, United Kingdom Karnac Books 2015.
- 1 online resource (369)
Includes bibliographies and index.
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; FOREWORD; CHAPTER ONE The intellectual and emotional journey toward understanding the incest trauma; CHAPTER TWO Psychoanalysis's neglect of the incest trauma; CHAPTER THREE Confusion of tongues drama: the suppression of the first theory and method for the treatment of the incest trauma; CHAPTER FOUR Confusion of tongues theory of childhood sexual trauma; CHAPTER FIVEA pioneering analysis of the incest trauma: Sándor Ferenczi's analysis of Elizabeth Severn; CHAPTER SIX Listening to the voices of the abused CHAPTER SEVEN Incest trauma, psychoanalysis, and the brainCHAPTER EIGHT Analysis of an incest trauma in a difficult case; CHAPTER NINE Analysis of the incest trauma through the drawings of an outsider artist; CHAPTER TEN View from the couch: an analysand's experience of trauma; CHAPTER ELEVEN Triumph of the human spirit: the emotional courage of a young woman who confronted her incest trauma; CHAPTER TWELVE Countertransference encounters: the analyst's experience of trauma analysis; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Understanding an erotic transference as an enactment of a childhood incest trauma CHAPTER FOURTEEN Education, training, and supervision for analyzing the incest traumaREFERENCES; INDEX
Childhood sexual abuse within the family of origin and society's institutions, such as the church, education, sports, and the world of celebrity, has been neglected as a significant issue by psychoanalysis and society. The incest trauma needs to be understood as one of the most significant problems of contemporary society.This book is an attempt to re-establish incest trauma as a significant psychological disorder by tracing the evolutionary trajectory of psychoanalysis from the Seduction Theory to the Oedipal Therapy to the Confusion of Tongues Theory. By examining the theoretical, emotional,