Rediscovering Childhood Trauma

On Paradigms and the Legitimisation of Myopia, Richard Kluft, MD. Part 1 Mythical Figures and Psychoanalytic Paradigms: Oedipus - Uncovering Intergenerational Cycles of Violence; Electra - Revenge Fantasies and Homicide in Child Abuse Victims. Part 2 Exorcism and Possession States: Freud's Notes on a 17th Century Case of Demonic Possession - Understanding the Uses of Exorcism; Possession and Persecution by Demons - Janet's Use of Hypnotic Techniques in Treating Hysterical Psychosis. Part 3 Rediscovering Sadism: Human Vectors of Trauma - Illustrations from the Marquis de Sade. Part 4 Grand Hysteria, Multiple Personality and the Discovery of the Unconscious: Mary Renolds and Estelle - Somatic Symptoms and Unacknowledged Trauma. Part 5 Early Psychoanalytic Cases: Anna O - Reformulation of Multiple Personality Disorder; The Dora Syndrome - Attempts to Restructure Childhood in Adult Victims of Child Abuse. Part 6 A Modern Psychoanalytic Case: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Compulsive Self-Mutilation.