NDLI: Knowing Terrible Things: Engaging Survivors of Extreme Violence in Treatment

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Bragin, Martha
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	Survivors of extreme violence can be difficult to engage in treatment. Often this is caused by a sense of isolation drawn from the belief that no one who has not shared their experience can comprehend it. The only others who know what they know are those who have died of the violence, fellow survivors and the perpetrators. The clinician attempting to treat such patients may be placed in a dilemma: how to convey the capacity to know terrible things without being destroyed by the survivor, while at the same time not conveying that one is dangerous oneself. This paper suggests a method of utilizing unconscious aggressive fantasy to access the capacity to convey to the survivor that it is possible to hear, understand and contain violent experience. Case illustrations indicate how such capacity might be conveyed, so that a treatment alliance can begin.
Starting Page	229
Ending Page	236
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00911674
Journal	Clinical Social Work Journal
Volume Number	35
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15733343
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2007-08-21
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Trauma Violence Treatment Aggression Psychoanalytic theory Survivors Engagement Heal Knowledge Personality & Social Psychology Clinical Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Health (social science) Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Social Work

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