Trauma and Primitive Mental States

Taylor & Francis

Trauma and Primitive Mental StatesAn Object Relations Perspective\nAuthor(s): Judy K. Eekhoff\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138364363, 978-1138364363\nSynopsis\nTrauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective offers a clinically based framework through which adult survivors of early childhood trauma can re-engage with painful past events to create meaningful futures for themselves.\n\nThe book highlights the use of the body and the mind in working with these early unmentalized and unrepresented states, illustrating the value of finding language that embodies emotions, and working in the here and now of transference and counter-transference. Including a range of examples of how early trauma can thus be re-presented and clinically understood, the book illustrates how patients can discover themselves and leave their repetitive patterns of suffering behind.\n\nWritten by a clinician with over 3.