Title The posttraumatic self : restoring meaning and wholeness to personality / edited by John P. Wilson

Published New York : Routledge, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 477 pages) : illustrations Series Routledge psychosocial stress series Routledge psychosocial stress series. Contents About the editor -- Contributors -- Series editor's foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction and overview: a positive psychology of trauma and PTSD / John P. Wilson -- The posttraumatic self / John P. Wilson -- Trauma and the epigenesis of identity / John P. Wilson -- Childhood trauma: the deeper wound / Kathleen O. Nader -- Trauma archetypes and trauma complexes / John P. Wilson -- Trauma, optimal experiences, and integrative psychological states / John P. Wilson -- Trauma and alterations in normal personality / Brian Hall and John P. Wilson -- Mutative transference and the restoration of the posttraumatic self / Jacob D. Lindy -- Posttraumatic shame and guilt: culture and the posttraumatic self / Boris Droždek, Silvana Turkovic, and John P. Wilson -- The resilient trauma survivor / John P. Wilson and Christine E. Agaibi -- Trauma and transformation of the self: restoring meaning and wholeness to personality / John P. Wilson -- Transformational principles: healing and recovery from psychic trauma / John P. Wilson Summary Filling a gap that exists in most traumatology literature, The Posttraumatic Self provides an optimistic analysis of the aftermath of a traumatic event. This work appreciates the potentially positive effects of trauma and links those effects to the discovery of one's identity, character, and purpose. Wilson and his distinguished contributors explore the nature and dynamics of the posttraumatic self, emphasising human resilience and prompting continued optimal functioning. While taking into consideration pathological consquences such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the authors study th Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Post-traumatic stress disorder. Psychic trauma. Self psychology. Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic -- psychology Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic Self Psychology PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Post-traumatic stress disorder Psychic trauma Self psychology Posttraumatische stressstoornis. Zelf. Form Electronic book Author Wilson, John P ISBN 9780203955932 0203955935

Other Titles Post traumatic self

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