After trauma.... a new essayAFTER TRAUMA, HIDDEN OR OBVIOUS: POSSIBILITIES FOR TREATMENT.
Johanna Krout Tabin, Ph.D. ABPP
Note: These papers were presented at the Section V Panel, APA, New Orleans, LA, August, 2006. (They are also online as downloadable pdfs on the Section II link on the Division 39 home page .)
An important part of the mission of Section V is to keep abreast of innovation in psychoanalysis. The papers which follow offer ground-breaking applications of psychoanalytic understanding in trying to help victims of trauma. Marvin Hurvich contributes a theoretically grounded but clinically practical exploration of annihilation fantasies. Sharon Farber speaks in the same way to the use of cutting and other self-harming mechanisms. She shows the clinical importance of recognizing the adaptive function of such behaviors.
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