Analysing Patients with Traumas

Franziska Henningsen, PhD, was a member of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV) and a training and supervising analyst at the Karl-Abraham-Institute in Berlin. She published numerous articles on psychoanalytic theory and practice with adults and children, especially on psychosomatic diseases, psychic trauma, homosexuality, East-West-Dialogue, the assessment of traumatized refugees. She took many important positions in the German Psychoanalytic Association (DPV) and was the Secretary of the DPV 2000-2004. She was the Chair of the IPA Committee for Outreach and Interdisciplinary Dialogue in 2004-2006. She was a member of the Program Committee for the IPA Congress 2013 in Prague. She was engaged in the development of psychoanalysis in East-Germany and East-Europe. She chaired for a long time the DPV East-West Committee and was a Member of the IPA Moscow Sponsoring Committee. She died in February 2015.

Part 1: Sick Children - Sick Mothers 1. "No sick children in my house today": death fears in children 2. "That's my mother's trauma, not mine": concretistic fusion, acting-out, symbolisation 3. "We aren't starving yet": silence in withdrawal and communicating in images 4. Splitting and fusion Part 2: Separation Traumas 5. "This is my daughter. Take good care of her!": From objectless anxiety to separation anxiety 6. "Everyone knows my mother. Everyone except me.": Concretistic fusion and denial of object loss 7. "The greatest danger comes from myself": destruction and guilt 8. Acting out and compulsive repetition Part 3: Experiences Of Violence And Abuse In Childhood 9. A helper in search of help: splitting and psychic reality 10. "I want no part of this hell": en route to perversion 11. "I can look after myself": destruction and consolation in one and the same object? 12. Love and hate Part 4: Experiences Of Violence And Abuse In Adulthood: Torture And War 13. Post-traumatic stress disorder 14. Negative countertransference: depletion and resilience Part 5: Conclusion 15. Consequences for psychoanalytic technique 16. Trauma in society and politics: an outlook