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Author:   Jeffrey Kauffman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9780415763479

ISBN 10:   0415763479
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   09 June 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Note from the Editor Series Editor's Foreword Foreword, RonnieJanoff-Bulman Acknowledgment Introduction, JeffreyKauffman Constructing Meaning in a World Broken by theTraumatic Loss of the Assumptive World: Meaning, Self,and Transcendence 1. Crisis of Meaning in Trauma and Loss, Irene Smith Landsman 2. The Meaning of Your Absence: Traumatic Loss and Narrative Reconstruction Robert A. Neimeyer, Luis Botella, Olga Herrero, MeritxellPacheco, Sara Figueras and Luis AlbertoWerner-Wildner 3. How Could God? Loss and the Spiritual Assumptive World, Kenneth Doka 4. Questionable Assumptions About Assumptive Worlds, TomAttig Relationships With Self and Others 5. The Harm of Trauma: Pathological Fear, Shattered Assumptions, or Betrayal? Anne P. DePrince and Jennifer J.Freyd 6. The Assumptive World in the Context of Transference Relationships: A Contribution to Grief Theory, Daniel Liechty 7. A Self-Psychological Study of Experiences of Near Loss of Life One's Own Life or the Dying or Death of a Close Relative: The Shattered-Fantasy Model of Traumatic Loss, Richard B. Ulman and Maria T.Miliora Psychological Processes 8. Treatment of Violated Assumptive Worlds with EMDR, Roger M.Solomon 9. Coping with Challenges to Assumpitive Worlds, Charles A. Corr10. Beyond the Beveled Mirror: Mourning and Recovery from Childhood Maltreatment, SandraL. Bloom 11. The ""Curse"" of Too Good a Childhood, Therese A. Rando 12. The Assumptive World of Children, Linda Goldman Traumatic Loss and What Cannot BeSaid 13. Safety and the Assumptive World: A Theory of Traumatic Loss, Jeffrey Kauffman 14. What Cannot Be Remembered or Forgotten, Henry Krystal 15. Parting Words: Trauma, Silence and Survival, CathyCaruth Postscript by Colin MurrayParkes Index"

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"""The chapters in this collection build on theories of the psychology of trauma and psychosocial chnage to discuss psychological disturbance that occurs after a traumatic loss."" ""The assumptive world is our guide as we organize ourselves and our understanding of the world around us. Trauma attacks those assumptions. This book will help us bridge trauma by using the assumptive world even when it is under attack by the trauma that attacks us."" -- The World Pastoral Care Center, Resources Hotline, September 2002 ""A perfect text for an anxious time...an excellent addition to the literature on trauma. It will be helpful in understanding our clients as well as our responses to world events."" -- Clinical Social Work Journal ""The richness of this book for the reader is in seeing the same concept from a number of points of view."" -- Bereavement Care"

The chapters in this collection build on theories of the psychology of trauma and psychosocial chnage to discuss psychological disturbance that occurs after a traumatic loss. The assumptive world is our guide as we organize ourselves and our understanding of the world around us. Trauma attacks those assumptions. This book will help us bridge trauma by using the assumptive world even when it is under attack by the trauma that attacks us. -- The World Pastoral Care Center, Resources Hotline, September 2002 A perfect text for an anxious time...an excellent addition to the literature on trauma. It will be helpful in understanding our clients as well as our responses to world events. -- Clinical Social Work Journal The richness of this book for the reader is in seeing the same concept from a number of points of view. -- Bereavement Care

Author Information

Jeffrey Kauffman is a psychotherapist in private practice in Philadelphia and an instructor at the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. He specializes in the treatment of grief and trauma.

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