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The Unbroken Soul: Tragedy, Trauma, and Human Resilience
Contributor(s): Parens, Henri (Editor), Blum, Harold P. (Editor), Akhtar, Salman (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0765705885     ISBN-13: 9780765705884
Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
OUR PRICE: $149.10  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2008
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Annotation: The contributors to this volume are keenly aware that mental health professionals, while well trained to identify and treat psychopathology, are insufficiently informed or cognizant of human resilience, of how, and of what, intrapsychic, interpersonal, and psychosocial factors are operative in adaptive coping with and recovering from trauma. These authors, several of whom themselves were subjected to severe trauma, address the matter of resilience from the vantage point of their own personal and clinical experiences.

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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Neuropsychology
- Psychology | Psychopathology - Depression
- Psychology | Psychopathology - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (ptsd)
Dewey: 616.852
LCCN: 2007043651
Series: Margaret S. Mahler
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.05 lbs) 208 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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How do individuals cope constructively with significant trauma? How do they recover from it? What factors seem most codetermining of coping with and recovering from trauma? Can these be not only identified but also influenced by our interventions? Addressing these questions-questions about human beings' capacity for resilience-is the prime challenge taken up in this book by an assortment of international psychoanalytic, attachment, and biological mental health theorists and clinicians. While mental health professionals are well trained to identify and treat psychopathology, little is taught about how to look for strengths in patients that assist them in their coping and that, on their own and with our nurturance, can foster their recovery. Some of the contributors to this volume, having themselves been subjected to severe trauma, speak of resilience both from within their own experience, from those around them, and from their work with traumatized patients.
 
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