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Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series)

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This essay combines the best of heart and head. For anyone wanting to understand the phenomena of trauma as a "lived" experience this book fulfills that promise. The author writes about his personal experience of traumatic loss. In a candid and open manner he describes how he and others make sense of that experience. Grounded in a well articulated phenomenological stance, he describes the profound change trauma evokes in worldview. It isn't just that our world is different, our very existence is changed. There is always a before and after, continuity is challenged. Well recommended.

I have found every one of Dr. Stolorow's books extremely helpful to me in my practice as a psychologist and this one is no exception. Since what we do as psychotherapists is essentially deal with trauma in one form or another I would recommend this book to every clinician. I believe you will find it both moving and instructive, and hopefully you will be as grateful to Dr. Stolorow as I am for having written it.

This book focusses on insight of trauma in a unerstandable fashion as a second generation holocaust survivor , I would recommend this though often the impact of trauma is underestimated this may help provide insight

This is a little book with some profound and moving ideas. The need to share rather than to deny our human finitude and humbling concommitant feelings may not only be important to an individuals post-traumatic healing, but to the the future survival of humanity in the nuclear era. The universal challenge for emotional tolerance in the face of authentic human Being will be answered, in the dark living out of wounded terror, rage and grief or within a difficult higher conciousness interlaced (in my opinion) with love,caring,kindness,existentential wonder and gratfulness.
With his credentials and experience it wouldn't surprise if Dr. Stolorow were invited to serve as a consultant to the Obama Administration regarding the psychological and political impact of individual and collective trauma.
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