The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma

by Richard B. Ulman, Doris Brothers

Ulman and Brothers utilize a unique clinical research population of rape and incest victims and Vietnam combat veterans to argue that trauma results from real occurrences that have, as their unconscious meaning, the shattering of "central organizing fantasies" of self in relation to selfobject. Their innovative treatment approach revolves around the transformation of these shattered fantasies in the intersubjective context of the transference-countertransference neurosis.

328 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1993

Reviews

[Vincent Arthurs]

Heavy read but illustrated with case histories which make this look into traa a definite must resd.