Trauma and dreams
In this volume, Deirdre Barrett brings together the study of dreams and the psychology of trauma. She has called on a distinguished group of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers - among them Rosalind Cartwright, Robert J. Lifton, and Oliver Sacks - to consider how trauma shapes dreaming and what the dreaming mind might reveal about trauma. The book focuses on catastrophic events, such as combat, political torture, natural disasters, and rape. The lasting effects of childhood trauma,…
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- Full title :Trauma and dreams / edited by Deirdre Barrett.
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In this volume, Deirdre Barrett brings together the study of dreams and the psychology of trauma. She has called on a distinguished group of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers - among them Rosalind Cartwright, Robert J. Lifton, and Oliver Sacks - to consider how trauma shapes dreaming and what the dreaming mind might reveal about trauma. The book focuses on catastrophic events, such as combat, political torture, natural disasters, and rape. The lasting effects of childhood trauma, such as sexual abuse or severe burns, on personality formation, the nature of memories of early trauma, and the development of defenses related to amnesia and dissociation are all considered. The book also takes up trauma and adult dreams, including Vietnam veterans and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Holocaust survivors and perpetrators, rape victims, and firestorm survivors.
Finally, this volume concludes with a look at the potential "traumas of normal life," such as divorce, bereavement, and life-threatening illness, and the role of dreams in working through normal grief and loss
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:1996.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1996.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 272 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780674270534, 0674270533
- oclc:on1289819991
- LC Classification:RC489.D74
- Dewey Decimal:616.85/21
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