The assumptive world concept is a psychological principle of the conservation of human reality or "culture" - it is a lens for seeing the psychological disturbances that occur in times of change. In this collection, the authors examine the assumptive world from diverse theoretical perspectives, providing the reader with an array of different viewpoints illuminating the concept and its clinical usefulness.
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"The chapters in this collection build on theories of the psychology of trauma and psychosocial chnage to discuss psychological disturbance that occurs after a traumatic loss.."
"The assumptive world is our guide as we organize ourselves and our understanding of the world around us. Trauma attacks those assumptions. This book will help us bridge trauma by using the assumptive world even when it is under attack by the trauma that attacks us.."
-The World Pastoral Care Center, Resources Hotline, September 2002
"A perfect text for an anxious time...an excellent addition to the literature on trauma. It will be helpful in understanding our clients as well as our responses to world events.."
-Clinical Social Work Journal, Spring 2004
"The richness of this book for the reader is in seeing the same concept from a number of points of view.."
-Bereavement Care
"The assumptive world is our guide as we organize ourselves and our understanding of the world around us. Trauma attacks those assumptions. This book will help us bridge trauma by using the assumptive world even when it is under attack by the trauma that attacks us.."
-The World Pastoral Care Center, Resources Hotline, September 2002
"A perfect text for an anxious time...an excellent addition to the literature on trauma. It will be helpful in understanding our clients as well as our responses to world events.."
-Clinical Social Work Journal, Spring 2004
"The richness of this book for the reader is in seeing the same concept from a number of points of view.."
-Bereavement Care
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The latest contribution to the SERIES IN TRAUMA AND LOSS, Loss of the Assumptive World, edited by Jeffrey Kauffman, is about the extraordinary shift, the wake-up call, the shattered assumptions caused by trauma and loss. Now, more than ever this book contributes to the emerging field of Traumatology and the theoretical practice of mental health applied to grieving. –Charles R. Figley, Ph.D., Florida State University, Series Editor and Director
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This review is from: Loss of the Assumptive World: A Theory of Traumatic Loss (Series in Trauma and Loss) (Hardcover)
This book is a collection of articles and essays which reference, compliment, and examine various facets of Ronnie Janoff-Bulman's psychological "assumptive world" theory. Written by clinical psychologists for clinical psychologist, it is refreshingly lucid and free of the pandering gibberish that one frequently encounters in psychology for the general reader (i.e. the "self-help" industry). Of particular interest is a lengthy essay in the middle of the book which links assumptive world theory with Ernest Becker's work on death denial. Here, the specific focus on traumatology as a sub-discipline of clinical psychology widens to address larger issues of day-to-day coping and value judgments of non-traumatized individuals. It's difficult, given the convincing nature of many (although not all) of these essays, to escape the conclusion that the miniature traumas of everyday life - and how we each confront them - can be fairly characterized as windows into the nature of the universe and, conversely, into our own unique natures (or souls).
Further, the value and purpose of dramatic narrative - collectively and individually - are touched on here in meaningful ways. Anyone interested in the causes of conflict, neuro-biological motivators of behavior, and the pathways to a more meaningful life will find this material positively provocative. In the most banal sense, it reveals to the reader his or her most basic assumptions about "reality" - and exposes them as tenuous, albeit necessary, illusions.
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revising the assumptive world, archaic narcissistic fantasies, assumptive world revision, assumptive world violation, assumptive world beliefs, narcissistic meaning, betrayal trauma theory, mayor loss, fear paradigm, assumptive worlds, traumatic information, traumatic grief, world vulnerabilities, meaning reconstruction, existential confrontation, traumatic repetition, helplessness panic, traumatic loss, shattered assumptions, posttraumatic responses, numbing symptoms, global assumptions, psychosocial transition, complicated mourning, positive cognition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Luis Alberto, Basic Books, Guilford Press, Death Studies, American Psychological Association, The Free Press, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Research Press, International Universities Press, The Analytic Press, Oxford University Press, American Psychiatric Association, Bernadette Leite, Jason Aronson, Plenum Press, Harvard University Press, Lexington Books, Loss of Ability, Psychological Bulletin, United States, University of Chicago Press, World War, American Psychiatric Press, Anne Frank New!
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