Wounded By Reality

Ghislaine Boulanger is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and a member of the Relational faculty at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Her interest in adult onset trauma began when she joined a congressionally mandated research team doing an epidemiological study of Vietnam veterans. Her findings about the long-term consequences of surviving violence in adulthood have led to a career of research, writing, and teaching about the psychodynamic causes and consequences of adult onset trauma.

Toward a Psychodynamic Understanding of Adult Onset Trauma. Catastrophic Dissociation and Childhood Trauma: Some Distinctions. The Cost of Survival: Historical Perspectives on Adult Onset Trauma. Wounded by Reality: The Relational Turn. The Core Self in Crisis: Deconstructing Catastrophic Dissociation. The Relational Self in Crisis: Further Deconstructing Catastrophic Dissociation. From Voyeur to Witness: The Crisis in Symbolic Functioning During Catastrophic Dissociation. The Ancient Mariner's Dilemma: Constructing a Trauma Narrative. The Strength Found in Innocence: Resistance to Working Psychodynamically with Survivors of Adult Onset Trauma. The Psychological Politics of Catastrophe: Local, Personal, and Professional.