Binding: Paperback
Description: Memory Trauma and the Spirited Life offers a unique understanding of memory's role in developing as a person in navigating the course of life and in mitigating emotional pain. This book develops the idea that memory by what it endows requires work of us that entails responsibility: to the self the other to the planet and to the living and the dead. Discussing the concept of memory and what it provides from the ancients to the present Burrell draws on such writers as E. M. Forster and Rosa Luxemburg Walter Benjamin Tzvetan Todarov and Edward Said as well as Susan Rubin Suleiman and Paul Ricoeur to explore the operation of cultural and collective memory trauma otherness and the possibility for forgiveness. By means of richly detailed clinical vignettes the author provides a psychoanalytic perspective to illustrate the transformative power of memory in coming to terms with the past thereby making it essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training as well as those with interests in history literature identity the treatment of trauma and the question of hope.
Title: Memory Trauma And The Spirited Life Remembering And Identity
Author(s): Burrell Gillian
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032411194
Pages: 140 Pages
Publication Date: 12/30/2022
Category: Trauma & Shock