Trauma and Loss

Robbie Duschinsky is Senior University Lecturer in Social Sciences in the Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow and Director of Studies at Sidney Sussex College. Kate White is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist, supervisor and member of The Bowlby Centre, London. She is also Editor Emeritus for Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis and is currently Series Editor for The Bowlby Centre Monographs and most recently co-editor of Dementia: An Attachment Approach.

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Foreword: Miriam Steele and Howard Steele

Introduction: Robbie Duschinsky and Kate White

Part One: Mature theoretical writings

1. Defences that Follow Loss: Causation and Function (1962); Appendix: Selective Exclusion & Levels of Motivation (c.1960-1963)

2. Loss, Detachment and Defence (1962); Appendix: Letter from Mary Ainsworth (1962)

3. The Place of Defensive Exclusion in Depressive Disorders (c.1978-1979)

4. Darwin: Psychiatry and Developmental Psychology (1983)

Part Two: Early writings on guilt, anxiety and identification

5. Psychological Problems of Evacuation (c.1939-1942)

6. Freud and the Super-Ego (c.1933-1936)

7. Guilt and Family Contracts (c.1937-1939)

Part Three: Seminars at Stanford and the Tavistock

8. A Psycho-Analytic Approach to Conflict and its Regulation: A seminar delivered to members of the Stanford Conflict Seminar (1958)

9. Summary of Discussions and Topics for Final Session(s): A seminar delivered to members of the Stanford Conflict Seminar, February, 1958

10. Psychological Processes Evoked By A Major Psycho-Social Transition (1974); Appendix: Transitions by Colin Murray Parkes (1974)

Part Four: Retrospective reflections

11. Interview with Alice Smuts (1977)

12. The Role of the Psychotherapist’s Personal Resources in the Treatment Situation (1985)

Index