The Inner World of Trauma

Drawing on answers revealed to him through the dreams, fantasies and interpersonal struggles of his traumatized clients, the author shows how we can use the resulting enhanced understanding to help victims of early trauma.
This work is concerned with the psychoanalytic interpretation of trauma, with particular respect to the views of Carl Gustav Jung, the pioneering pschoanalyst, who focused on the role of childhood experiences in the development of a person's psyche. Donald E. Kalsched draws on his own clinical work to show the value of Jung's insights into the inner world of the psyche in treating patients, especially those suffering from multiple personality disorder and post-traumatic stress. At the same time he proposes some revisions to Jung's theories in response to the findings of researchers and clinicians approaching the problem from different theoretical perspectives such as object relations and self psychology.