Complex Trauma

Auteur

Joanne Stubley is a Consultant Medical Psychotherapist and Psychoanalyst, and lead clinician in the Tavistock Trauma Service since 2008. She has written widely and teaches both nationally and internationally on complex trauma. While continuing to develop a multi-modal, phase-based Trauma Service in the NHS that is innovative and trauma-informed, she sees the relational understanding offered by psychoanalysis as key to the work.

Linda Young is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst with over 30 years of clinical and teaching experience. She has been part of the Tavistock Trauma Service since 1990, including co-designing, organizing, and leading the one-year part-time course, Understanding Trauma. In addition to working within the field of trauma, a particular area of expertise is working with adolescents and young adults, in the Tavistock Adolescent and Young Adult Service.

Texte du rabat

The new diagnosis of Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder presents diagnostic and treatment challenges which need to be grappled with since, in a troubled world, it is increasingly important to understand the impact and aftermath of traumatic experiences and, crucially, how to work with those affected by it.

Contenu

1. Complex trauma: the initial consultation 2. The Tavistock Trauma Service 3. Complex trauma: working with other modalities within a psychoanalytic frame 4. The body as the new royal road to the unconscious 5. Working with traumatised adolescents: a framework for intervention 6. Designing and working in a service for women with historical child sexual abuse 7. Relational trauma and oppression: clinical work with young men who were groomed and sexually abused as children 8. Helping the heroes: psychoanalytic work with military veterans 9. Bridging the gap: developing a thinking space for refugees 10. Between hope and horror: complex trauma in refugees and asylum seekers 11. The game of football: psychoanalytical reflections on love, hope, and resilience 12. Therapeutic yoga and psychotherapy for facilitating post-traumatic growth 13. Trauma and the body: a psychoanalytic reading of Almodovar's The Skin I Live In
   14. Writing trauma: literary representations of traumatic experience 15. Complex trauma in a time of crisis 16. Endings in the work: with patients with complex trauma