Working with Trauma

Lessons from Bion and Lacan

By (author) Marilyn Charles

Publication date:

03 November 2011

Length of book:

130 pages

Publisher

Jason Aronson, Inc.

ISBN-13: 9780765706805

Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan by Marilyn Charles takes concepts from the psychoanalytic literature and translates them into user-friendly language. In this book, Charles focuses on clinical work with more severely disturbed patients, for whom trauma has impeded their psychosocial development. Introducing ideas from Bion and Lacan, such as “empty speech” and “attacks on linking,” she shows the reader their clinical utility. Her use of clinical moments, rather than more lengthy vignettes, invites readers to recognize that type of dilemma and imagine how they might use the concept in their own work.

Contents
Foreword by Michael O'Loughlin
Prologue
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Subject Caught by the Desire of the Other
Chapter 3: Stumbling over the Gap: "The Unconscious is Structured Like a Language"
Chapter 4: Shame and the Possibility of Insight
Chapter 5: Development, Negation, and the Desire to Turn a Blind Eye
Chapter 6: Development, Negation, and the Desire to Turn a Blind Eye, Part II: Perversion
Chapter 7: Working with Trauma: Attacks on Linking and Empty Speech
Chapter 8: Passage into Action and the Fear of Breakdown
Chapter 9: Telling Trauma: Working with Psychosis
Chapter 10: Telling Trauma, Part II: Signs, Symbols, and Symptoms
Chapter 11: Meetings at the Edge
Epilogue
References
Index
About the Author

Psychoanalysis continues to open and explore realities important for living. Marilyn Charles mediates vital concepts of psychoanalysis today and demonstrates its relevance for our current predicaments and needs.