Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury

by Margaret Crastnopol

Micro-trauma: A psychoanalytic understanding of cumulative psychic injury explores the "micro-traumatic" or small, subtle psychic hurts that build up to undermine a person's sense of self-worth, skewing his or her character and compromising his or her relatedness to others. These injuries amount to what has been previously called "cumulative" or "relational trauma." Until now, psychoanalysis has explained such negative influences in broad strokes,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415800358
• ISBN13: 9780415800358
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"