The Nature of Trauma and Dissociation

The Nature of Trauma and Dissociation

Before, beyond and beneath meaning: developmental neuroscientific and pragmatic perspectives on non-verbal aspects of intersubjectivity

This presentation explores the multi-facetted nature of empathy – the neuroscientific and implicit behavioral interactions that together deepen the therapist’s capacity to introject the traumatized patient’s emotional experience and so come to know that person ‘from the inside out’.

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THE SPEAKER

Dr Jean Knox

Dr Jean Knox is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst. She is a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology, a Senior Member and Training Therapist of the British Association of Psychotherapists and Consultant Editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology.

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REFERENCES

LINKS

Dr Jean Knox’s page at the University of Exeter cedar.exeter.ac.uk

BOOKS

Self-Agency in Psychotherapy: Attachment, Autonomy, and Intimacy
Publisher: W.W.Norton – 2011
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Archetype, Attachment, Analysis: Jungian Psychology and the Emergent Mind
Publisher: Routledge – 2003

Transference and Countertransference
Publisher : Karnac Books – 1982