Alex Monk

Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy

Working with the Curse Position in Clinical Practice

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780367766726
• ISBN-10: 0367766728
• Artikelnr.: 67514863

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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