Counter-Time : Temporality of thought and history in clinical practice and literature

Omtale

This book explores how trauma affects our experience of time, howthat experience may not be linear, and how we may experience“counter-time” – a disruption or arrest of time’s flow and a perpetualreturn to the time of trauma. Counter-Time explores this phenomenon in clinical practice and inexamples from literature and history, including mass trauma such asgenocide. Survivors of trauma can be helped to move beyond theirexperience by drawing on their own cultural resources, helping themto use “counter-time” as a means of release instead of a repeatedtraumatic symptom. With rich clinical detail and clear, accessible writing, this book isessential reading for all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists workingwith trauma.