The Alchemy of Wolves and Sheep A relational approach to internalized perpetration in complex trauma survivors

• Main Author: Schwartz, Harvey L.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2013; Taylor and Francis
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Archetypal perspectives; Behavioural Science; Child Soldiers; DID; Dissociative disorders in children; Dissociative Identity Disorder; Interpersonal Psychoanalysis; Mental Health; Post-traumatic stress disorder in children; Psychic trauma in children; Psychoanalysis; Psychology; Relational; Trauma; Trauma and Dissociation; Archetypal perspectives; Psychology; Dissociative Patients; Mental Health; Vice Versa; Dissociative Survivor; Patient's Self-system; Hero's Journey; Alter Personalities; Trauma Survivors; Dissociative Adaptation; Mind Control Programming; Mind Control; Psychoanalysis; Perpetrator States; Child Soldiers; Perpetrator Group; Hostile Alter; Transitional Justice; DID; Complex Trauma Survivors; Community Re-integration; High Emotional Valence; Effective Relational Treatment; Camoufl Age; Relational; Betrayal Blindness; Do; Trauma; Restorative Justice; Dissociative Identity Disorder; Behavioural Science; Perpetrating System
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203079331
• ISBN: 9781138932388; 1138932388; 9780415644709; 0415644704

The literature on psychological trauma and traumatic attachment has progressed over the past few decades, however issues of coerced and internalized perpetration have not been fully explored and deconstructed. This book presents a synthesis of relational and archetypal psychology, trauma and dissociation theory, and highly relevant child soldier literature, to offer new clinical perspectives to assist psychotherapists and trauma patients to achieve more successful therapy outcomes. The Alchemy of Wolves and Sheep offers instructive, cautionary and innovative therapeutic approaches to help transform the lives of survivors of complex trauma. Providing an explanation of how the effects of coerced perpetration trauma are built, and the damage done to the psyches and lives of most trauma victims, the book extends our knowledge base in a thorough deconstruction of the nature of perpetration and its effects on the psyche. Chapters include: trauma, dissociation, and coerced perpetration the child soldier as a model of internalized perpetration relational concepts in the treatment of trauma and dissociative disorders treatment trajectory archetypal constructs as a vehicle for integration. This book provides valuable new perspectives on the psychodynamic challenges and opportunities for mental health professionals treating internalized perpetration in survivors of complex trauma, and will prove essential reading for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and post-graduate students as well as researchers, legal scholars and policy makers.