Terrifying Transferences: Aftershocks of Childhood Trauma

by Lawrence E. Hedges, Linda Barnhurst (Contributor), John Carter (Contributor)

There is a level of stark terror known to one degree or another by all human beings. It silently haunts our lives and occasionally surfaces in therapy. It is this deep-seated fear -- often manifest in dreams or fantasies of dismemberment, mutilation, torture, abuse, insanity, rape, or death -- that grips us with the terror of being lost forever in time and space or controlled by hostile forces stronger than ourselves. Whether the terror is felt by the client or by the therapist, it has a disorienting, fragmenting, crippling power. How we can look directly into the face of such terror, hold steady, and safely work it through is the subject of Terrifying Transferences . Contributing Linda Barnhurst, John Carter, Shirley Cox, Jolyn Davidson, Virginia Hunter, Michael Reyes, Audrey Seaton-Bacon, Sean Stewart, Gayle Trenberth, and Cynthia Wygal. Gradiva Award Best Book of the Year.

422 pages, Paperback

Published November 30, 2022