The past in the present : therapy enactments and the return of trauma / edited by David Mann & Valerie Cunningham - East Sussex, England ; New York : Routledge, c2009 - [xiii], 202 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes index

The therapist’s vulnerability as the theatre for the patient’s trauma: the repetition of enacted trauma in psychoanalytic psychotherapy / by David Mann -- Mutual enactments within the therapeutic relationship / by Valerie Cunningham -- The complaint: enactments from the patient’s sadism and the therapist’s collusion / by Marie Adams -- The ghost at the feast: enactments of culmulutive trauma in the therapeutic relationship / by Celia Harding -- Loves and losses, enactments in the disavowal of intimate desires / by William Cornell -- Action and enactment in therapy with children / by Caroline Case -- Existential psychotherapy and enactment / by Raymond Kenwood -- Tangled webs: enactments on an inpatient ward for eating disorders / by Patricia Marsden and Alison Knight-Evans -- Person-centred therapy with enactment and trauma / by Louise Embleton Tudor and Keith Tudor -- The therapist as a "bad object": the use of countertransference enactment to facilitate psychoanalytic therapy / by Penny Webster -- Enactment of trauma in therapeutic work with refugees and asylum seekers / by Janet McDermott -- The therapist as a passive object / by Christina Wieland

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Psychotherapist and patient
Acting out (Psychology)
Psychic trauma
Psychoanalysis
Humanistic psychotherapy
Stress Disorders, Traumatic--therapy