9781138860919-1138860913-Trauma and Countertrauma, Resilience and Counterresilience (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series)

Trauma and Countertrauma, Resilience and Counterresilience (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series)

ISBN-13: 9781138860919
ISBN-10: 1138860913
Edition: 1
Author: Richard B. Gartner
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 318 pages
Category: Mental Health
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ISBN-13: 9781138860919
ISBN-10: 1138860913
Edition: 1
Author: Richard B. Gartner
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 318 pages
Category: Mental Health

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Trauma and Countertrauma, Resilience and Counterresilience (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series) (ISBN-13: 9781138860919 and ISBN-10: 1138860913), written by authors Richard B. Gartner, was published by Routledge in 2016. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Mental Health books. You can easily purchase or rent Trauma and Countertrauma, Resilience and Counterresilience (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Mental Health books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.13.

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Treating traumatized patients takes its toll on the treating clinician, giving rise over time to what Richard B. Gartner terms countertrauma in the psychoanalyst or therapist. Paradoxically, a clinician may also be imbued with a sense of optimism, or counterresilience, after learning how often the human spirit can triumph over heartbreakingly tragic experiences.

Trauma and Countertrauma, Resilience and Counterresilience brings together a distinguished group of seasoned clinicians, both trauma specialists and psychoanalysts. Their personal reflections show what clinicians all too rarely dare to reveal: their personal traumatic material. They then discuss how they develop models for acknowledging, articulating, and synthesizing the countertrauma that arises from long-term exposure to patients’ often-harrowing trauma. Writing openly, using viscerally affecting language, the contributors to this exceptional collection share subjective and sometimes intimate material, shedding light on the inner lives of people who work to heal the wounds of psychic trauma.

By the same token, many of these clinicians describe how working intimately with traumatized individuals can affect the listener positively, recounting how patients’ resilience evokes counterresilience in the therapist, allowing the clinician to benefit from ongoing contact with patients who deal bravely with horrific adversity. Paradoxically, a clinician may be imbued with a sense of optimism after learning how often the human spirit can triumph over heartbreakingly tragic experiences.

Trauma and Countertrauma, Resilience and Counterresilience will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, and trauma experts, offering a valuable resource to those beginning their careers in mental health work, to teachers and supervisors of trauma therapists, to experienced clinicians struggling with burnout, and to anyone who wants to understand the psychotherapeutic process or indeed the human condition.

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