Analysis of the Incest Trauma

Susan A. Klett, LCSW-R, BCD, NCPsyA, is Co-Director of the Washington Square Institute (WSI); a Training and Supervising Analyst, and Founder and Director of the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Training and Group Program. She is also a Contributing Editor of WSI's Journal 'Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology'; a Past President of the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society, and Former Chair of the Education Committee of the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work. She has published articles and reviews on trauma, eating and personality disorders and the psychoanalytic process, and has presented both nationally and internationally. She maintains a private practice in Manhattan. Arnold W. Rachman, PhD, FAGPA, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society, New York; a Clinical Professor of Psychology at Derner Institute, Adelphi University; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, New York University Medical School; on the Faculty of the Trauma and Disaster Studies Program, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis; on the Board of Directors, Sandor Ferenczi Study Center, New School for Social Research; and author of: 'Sandor Ferenczi: The Psychotherapist of Tenderness and Passion' and 'Psychotherapy of Difficult Cases: Flexibility & Responsiveness in Clinical Practice'.

Foreword , The intellectual and emotional journey toward understanding the incest trauma , Psychoanalysis’s neglect of the incest trauma , Confusion of tongues drama: the suppression of the first theory and method for the treatment of the incest trauma , Confusion of tongues theory of childhood sexual trauma , A pioneering analysis of the incest trauma: Sándor Ferenczi’s analysis of Elizabeth Severn , Listening to the voices of the abused , Incest trauma, psychoanalysis, and the brain , Analysis of an incest trauma in a difficult case , Analysis of the incest trauma through the drawings of an outsider artist , View from the couch: an analysand’s experience of trauma , Triumph of the human spirit: the emotional courage of a young woman who confronted her incest trauma , Countertransference encounters: the analyst’s experience of trauma analysis , Understanding an erotic transference as an enactment of a childhood incest trauma , Education, training, and supervision for analyzing the incest trauma