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2020, 170 p.

Trauma, Guilt and Reparation identifies the emotional barriers faced by people who have experienced severe trauma, as well as the emergence of reparative processes which pave the way from impasse to development. The book explores the issue of trauma with particular reference to issues of reparation and guilt. Referencing the original work of Klein and others, it examines how feelings of persistent guilt work to foil attempts at reparation, locking trauma deep within the psyche. It provides a theoretical understanding of the interplay between feelings of neediness with those of fear, wrath, shame and guilt, and offers a route for patients to experience the mourning and forgiveness necessary to come to terms with their own trauma. The book includes a Foreword by John Steiner.

Illustrated by clinical examples throughout, it is written by an author whose empathy and experience make him an expert in the field. The book will be of great interest to psychotherapists, social workers and any professional working with traumatised individuals.

Foreword viii

JOHN STEINER

Preface and acknowledgements xii

1 Trauma, guilt and reparation: A psychoanalytic paradigm 1

2 Impediments to reparation: Resentment, shame and

wrath – the significance of the gaze 24

3 Repetition compulsion and the primitive super-ego:

Attempts at reparation in borderline patients 44

4 The ‘Tower’: Submission and illusory security in a

traumatic defence organisation 63

5 Trauma, reparation and the limits of reparation 80

6 Traumatic remembering and ecliptic forgetting: On the

riddle of time in Jenny Erpenbeck’s The End of Days 99

7 Reparation and gratitude 109

Bibliography 126

Index 145