What does your involvement in trauma mean to you? Do you think it was somehow “meant to be?” For some survivors, the meaning of trauma centers around its irrationality or absurdity. Please join Koichi Togashi and me in a discussion of these aspects of trauma. We’d like to tell you about our self-psychological study of survivors of the 9-11 terrorist attacks and discuss our ideas about the irrational and absurd meanings of trauma. We’ll also review recent trends in the psychoanalytic understanding of trauma that support our approach. And we’ll illustrate our ideas with a short clinical vignette.
We hope you’ll come to our presentation and let us know your views about the meaning of trauma in your life and your patients’ lives.
Posted by Doris Brothers
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