Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy - Alex Monk

Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy

Working with the Curse Position in Clinical Practice

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
170 Seiten
2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-70747-7 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
This book explores how traumatic experience interacts with unconscious phantasy based in folklore, the supernatural and the occult. It also considers the historically conflicted relationship between psychoanalysis and the supernatural and proposes treatment perspectives which are not implicitly dependent upon a materialist paradigm.
Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy explores how traumatic experience interacts with unconscious phantasy based in folklore, the supernatural, and the occult.

Drawing upon psychoanalysis, anthropology, the arts, and esoteric philosophy, Alex Monk presents examples from folklore and literature to enrich his case illustrations which offer therapists important clinical perspectives on ways of working with clients who feel cursed and repeatedly manifest self-sabotaging states. The book examines the challenges that can arise when working with this client population and illustrates how to work through them while navigating potent transferences and projective identifications. Monk illustrates the way in which clients with developmental trauma may experience the supernatural and its psychic representatives as persecutory and/or a source of empowerment and healing. Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy also considers the historically conflicted relationship between psychoanalysis and the supernatural and proposes treatment perspectives which are not implicitly dependent upon a materialist paradigm.

This book will be of great interest to psychotherapists and counsellors who have an interest in clinical work concerning the connection of relational trauma to unconscious forms of communication and uncanny phenomena arising between therapist and client.

Alex Monk is an integrative arts psychotherapist and musician based in London, UK. He has a private practice in East London. He has a particular interest in psychoanalysis; the arts; and the weird, uncanny, and magical.

Introduction

1 Magic and the Supernatural: The Historical Context for the Curse Position

2 Mythopoetic Hysteria: The Fin de Siècle

3 The Curse Position (1): Unconscious Phantasy

4 The Curse Position (2): The Uncanny

5 The Ancestral Curse

6 Imposters of Love: Introjection and Identification

7 Redemption & Conditionality: Fairbairn and Relational Trauma

8 The Devil’s Culpa: Shame, Guilt, & Evil

9 The Evil Eye & Limited Good

10 An Alien Seed: Fear and Desire in Psychotherapy

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 331 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10 0-367-70747-0 / 0367707470
ISBN-13 978-0-367-70747-7 / 9780367707477
Zustand Neuware
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