Resiliens er et psykologisk begreb, som har været svært at definere klart eller måle troværdigt. Hvorfor nogle mennesker er ukuelige og klarer modgang bedre end andre, måske endda trives bedst sådan, kan have mange årsager, fra personlige egenskaber til sociale netværk og andre …
Part I: Literature review. Chapter One: Introduction to literature review, Chapter two: Methodology, Chapter Three: Psychological trauma, Chapter four: Literature and post traumatic stress disorder, Chapter five: Resilience, Chapter six: Dissociation, Chapter seven: A non-clinic…
Contemporary Directions in Trauma is a new text for courses on trauma and working with vulnerable populations. Trauma has evolved as a field over the past few decades. What began as focusing on childhood trauma, sexual abuse and PTSD, has now broadened much further to include ot…
This book offers reflections on how liberation might be experienced by clients as a result of the therapeutic relationship. Furthermore, it explores how power and resistance are most effectively and ethically understood and utilised in clinical practice with survivors of trauma.…
In the fifty years since its inception, John Bowlby's attachment theory has been powerfully influential on developmental psychology and, more recently, mental health. Bringing together the experience of a diverse range of mental health practitioners and researchers who routinely…
This work examines the links between the languages of literature and psychoanalysis, in terms of their uses in the analysis of trauma in the 20th century. The author argues that, through the notion of trauma, we come to see that history can arise where immediate understanding is…