Living With Terror, Working With Trauma A

This book addresses the ways that mental health practitioners can assist survivors of terrorism. Drawing upon the experience of leading practitioners and renowned experts throughout the world, this edited volume explores the most innovative methods currently employed to help people heal - and even grow - from traumatic experiences. It argues for a multi-dimensional approach to understanding and treating the effects of terror-related trauma.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

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PART I: THE MEANING OF TRAUMA

1 Psychic Trauma and Traumatic Object Loss

19

(16)

Harold P. Blum

2 Complex PTSD: A Syndrome in Survivors of Prolonged and Repeated Trauma

35

(16)

Judith Lewis Herman

3 Psychic Trauma and Fears of Annihilation

51

(16)

Marvin Hurvich

4 Resilience: Accommodation and Recovery

67

(16)

Henry Krystal

5 Disruption: Individual and Collective Threats

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(28)

Mordechai Benyakar and Danielle Knafo

PART II: LIVING WITH TERROR

6 Is Hiroshima Our Text?

111

(8)

Robert J. Lifton

7 Cambodians and Massive Trauma: What We Have Learned after Twenty Years

119

(16)

J. David Kinzie

8 Five Wars, Five Traumas: Experience and Insight from Clinical Work in Israel's Trenches

135

(20)

Mordechai Benyakar

9 Wounds of War: The Aftermath of Combat in Vietnam

155

(16)

Herbert Hendin and Ann Pollinger Haas

10 Children's Responses to Terrorist Attacks

171

(30)

Ofra Ayalon

11 Defeated Dreams: The Tragedy of Survivors

201

(32)

Elia Awwad

PART III: WORKING WITH TRAUMA

12 Early Interventions with Victims of Terrorism

233

(40)

Rony Berger

13 Posttraumatic Therapy in the Age of Neuroscience

273

(10)

Bessel van der Kolk

14 Optimizing Affect Function in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Trauma

283

(14)

Henry Krystal

15 An Eye for an Eye: Fantasies of Revenge in the Aftermath of Trauma

297

(16)

Nina K. Thomas

16 A Humanistic Approach to the Psychology of Trauma

313

(18)

Ilene Serlin and John T. Cannon

17 Empathic Strain, Compassion Fatigue, and Countertransference in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD

331

(38)

John P. Wilson

18 The Complexities of Working with Terror

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B. Hudnall Stamm, Craig Higson-Smith, and Amy C. Hudnall

PART IV: SEPTEMBER

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19 Reflections on September 11

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Martin S. Bergmann

20 Responses of the Mental Health Community to the World Trade Center Disaster

415

(14)

Charles B. Strozier and Katie Gentile

21 Large Group Destruction: A Group Analyst at Ground Zero

429

(20)

Bennett Roth

22 Terrorism on U.S. Soil: Remembering Past Trauma and Retraumatization

449

(12)

Maria V. Bergmann

23 Skyscrapers and Bones: Memorials to Dead Objects in the Culture of Desire

461

(18)

Isaac Tylim

PART V: LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE

24 Traumatized Societies and Psychological Care: Expanding the Concept of Preventive Medicine

479

(20)

Vamik D. Volkan

25 Storytelling as a Way to Work Through Intractable Conflicts: The TRT German-Jewish Experience and Its Relevance to the Palestinian-Israeli Context

499

(20)

Dan Bar-On and Fattma Kassem

26 No Amount of Suffering

519

(14)

Michael Eigen

27 Terror and Forgiveness

533

(32)

Robert Karen

28 Creative and Clinical Transformations of Trauma: Private Pain in the Public Domain

565

(24)

Danielle Knafo

Index

589

(8)

About the Contributors

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