Dancing between Hope and Despair

Trauma, Attachment and the Therapeutic Relationship

Sue Wright (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-137-44123-2 (ISBN)

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Why is hope so fundamental to our existence? Hope is increasingly being acknowledged as an important factor both for people’s resilience and for positive therapeutic outcomes. In considering this and many other questions, this evocative textbook introduces the reader to the repeated shifting, or 'dance', between hope and despair that is so often encountered by practitioners working with profoundly traumatised individuals.

This book brings a sharp focus to the ways in which therapeutic relationships can draw individuals out of the constant oscillation between light and dark. It provides an insightful and thoughtful discussion not just about despair itself, but about how to be with despair. Informed by the author's own years of experience in the field of psychotherapy, this engaging and stimulating book provides practical guidance on how students, trainees and practitioners can inspire fresh hope in deeply troubled clients.

Sue Wright is an Integrative Psychotherapist who specialises in working with people who have experienced complex trauma. She has worked with both adults and young people in a variety of settings in the public and voluntary sectors, and now works privately as a therapist, supervisor and trainer.

1. Introducing the Dance
2. Desperately Seeking the 'Happy Ever After': Some Theoretical Perspectives on Hope
3. Hoping, Imagining and Dreaming: An Evolutionary Perspective
4. Our Need for Hope and its Roots in Childhood
5. The Impact of Trauma as a Hope Destroyer Across the Life-cycle
6. When Hoping Keeps People Alive: Non Mentalised States and the Need for Illusions
7. The Internal Dance of Hope and Despair: Dissociation and Shifting Self States
8. Systemic Perspectives: Our Responses to Getting Stuck in Cycles of Hope and Despair
9. Working with Hopelessness from a Relational Perspective
10. Finding New Perspectives
11. Moving into Hope: New Meanings and New Experiences

Erscheinungsdatum	08.07.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	388 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-137-44123-2 / 1137441232
ISBN-13	978-1-137-44123-2 / 9781137441232
Zustand	Neuware