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Author Harris, Adrienne

Title Demons in the Consulting Room : Echoes of Genocide, Slavery and Extreme Trauma in Psychoanalytic Practice
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (227 pages)
Series Relational Perspectives Book Series
Relational perspectives book series.
Contents Demons in the Consulting Room- Front Cover ; Demons in the Consulting Room; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents; List of figures; Author biographies; Introduction; The Consulting Room; The culture and the community; Note; Bibliography; Clinical; Chapter 1: Ghosts in the consulting room: reluctant ancestors; "Ghosts": An explanation; Trauma and desymbolized somatic ghosts; (Re)Enactment as yours, mine and ours: interpsychic-intersomatic transmission of ghosts; All hell broke loose; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2: The Dybbuk: it's me or him; The "bad" father and the tender witness
Your heart must not be softIt's me or him; Without your clothes; Excess and containment, longing and shame; Conclusion; Note; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Occupation: a ghost story; So why is this a ghost story?; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Repressed ghosts and dissociated vampires in the enacted dimension of psychoanalytic treatment; Introduction; Two spectral metaphors; Ghosts and vampires in folklore and analytic treatment; Specific traumas and the vampire metaphor; The enacted dimension: the scene of the action; The intergenerational transmission of a Holocaust vampire: the case of Ann
Chapter 7: Ghosts and the sexual boundary violation: the limits of an ideaIntimate; Public 1; Public 2; References; Chapter 8: Basic uncertainty and totalitarian objects; Bibliography; Chapter 9: The presence of the past: transmission of slavery's traumas; Trauma; The slave's subjectivity; The dead mother; Transmission; Bibliography; Chapter 10: Wounded stories; Derrida's silence; Inabilities to mourn; The electorate in the graves; Debt to the dead; Uninvited guests; Notes; Afterword; References; Index
Summary And conclusionCoda; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Do we find or lose ourselves in the negative?; Abstract; What is coming; The case: what is represented; What's in clear (sight); Treatment history; The image: What we do see; The Showing; The Enactment; Knowing the difference between life and death; The body brings terror; Discussion; Being together not coming together; Summary; Notes; Bibliography; Community & culture; Chapter 6: The past is the presence between us: psychoanalysis and the specter of the Shoah; Bibliography
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Form Electronic book
Author Kalb, Margery
Klebanoff, Susan
ISBN 9781317373094
131737309X