Bions Emotional Links by Judy K. Eekhoff - 9781032897622

Bions Emotional LinksLove, Hate and Knowledge\nAuthor(s): Judy K. Eekhoff\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032897622, 978-1032897622\nSynopsis\nIn Bions Emotional Links, Judy K. Eekhoff explores emotion as a bridge between unrepresented and represented states, highlighting the importance of both internal emotional and external relationships in the development of the mind.\n\nInformed by Bions focus on analytic technique, Eekhoff includes clinical vignettes from her own work with patients who have endured trauma. She explores somatic processes and how effective analysis can break down unhealthy defence mechanisms employed by individuals which often leads to a perpetual cycle of retraumatising the self. Eekhoff shows how, through an understanding of dreams as a representation of the inner self and hope as a means of finding and retaining ones sense of self, barriers can be broken down to free patients from a cycle .