Paul Valent

MBBS, DPM, FRANZCP
Consultant liaison psychiatrist, psychotherapist, traumatologist,
Co-founder and past president Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies,
Writer.

The place of trauma in psychotherapy theory and practice. Talk to Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists

The histories of views on trauma in psychoanalysis and traumatology indicate the difficulties in accepting the frequency and enormity of traumas. Psychoanalysis and traumatology must be therapeutic partners. Otherwise psychoanalysis will only deal with peripheral ripples of traumas, and traumatology will only deal with a truncated area of trauma.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent Publication Date: March 2002 Categories: Trauma, Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy