The transmitting unconscious of traumatization -- The matrix of empathy -- Structure and dynamics of interpersonal processes in treatment of PTSD -- A model of empathy in trauma work -- The balance beam : modes of empathic attunement and empathic strain in post-traumatic therapy -- Empathic rupture and affect dysregulation : counter-transference in the treatment of PTSD -- Anxiety and defensiveness in the trauma therapist -- Empathy and traumatoid states -- Therapist reactions in post-traumatic therapy : a study of empathic strain in trauma work -- Understanding the nature of traumatoid states -- The positive therapeutic effects of empathic attunement and the transformation of trauma.
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"This book examines the ways in which professionals are psychologically impacted by their work with trauma clients and how this empathic strain can, in turn, pose a threat to treatment outcomes. The first of its kind, this text vastly expands the potential of this field by providing both a new instrument for assessing therapists' reactions to trauma treatment and new empirical data drawn from an unprecedented national survey of how therapists' emotional reactions affect both the client and the therapist."--Jacket.
A national research study forms the basis of the text and documents the different ways in which clinicians struggle to maintain therapeutic equilibrium and empathic attunement during clinical work with trauma clients.