Trauma and Countertrauma, Resilience and Counterresilience: Insights from Psychoanalysts and Trauma Experts

Book Overview

Treating traumatized patients famously takes its toll on the treating clinician, giving rise over time to a countertrauma in the psychoanalyst or therapist. Gartner has gathered a distinguished group of clinicians whose personal reflections do what clinicians do all too rarely; disclose their own traumatic material, and discuss how they have developed models for acknowledging, articulating and synthesizing the countertrauma that arises from long term...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138860913
• ISBN13: 9781138860919
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"