Topography of trauma : fissures, disruptions and transfigurations

Half Title
 Title Page
 Contents
 Illustrations
 Notes on Contributors
 part 1 Conceptualising Trauma
 ­chapter 1 The Continuum of Trauma
 2 Phenomenology of Trauma: Foundational Aspects
 3 Psychological Aspects: Trauma, Personality, Mental Illness
 5 Trauma as a 'Healing' Mechanism
 6 Conclusion
 Bibliography
 ­chapter 2 Encountering Trauma 'Too Soon' and 'Too Late': Caruth, Laplanche, and the Freudian Nachträglichkeit
 1 Introduction
 2 The Freudian Nachträglichkeit: between Progression and Retroaction
 3 Encountering Trauma 'One Moment Too Late' 4 Traumatic Awakening as Repetition Compulsion5 Freud and Emma
 6 Laplanche's Afterwardsness: Synthesising the Bidirectional Trajectories of Nachträglichkeit
 7 Situating Trauma: between the Past and the Present, the External and the Internal
 Bibliography
 ­chapter 3 'A World of Death and Phantoms': Auschwitz, Androids, and the Ethical Demands of Reading Trauma and the Fantastic in Willing Unbelief
 Bibliography
 ­chapter 4 Through the Looking-Glass: Child Sexual Abuse from the Inside-Out
 1 A Sort of Mist
 2 Looking-Glass House
 3 The Corkscrew Path
 4 Getting Invisible 5 Nothing to Cry About6 Six Impossible Things
 7 I Know My Name Now
 8 Having Seen Each Other
 Bibliography
 ­chapter 5 Working with Addiction and Trauma: Mental Health Professionals Reflect on Their Use of Spirituality
 1 Introduction
 2 A Special Interest Discussion Group on Spirituality
 2.1 The Group
 2.2 The Mental Health and Addictions Treatment Centre
 2.3 Pathways to Recovery
 3 Talking About Trauma and Spirituality
 3.1 Approaches to Spirituality
 3.2 Discussion Group Process
 4 Spirituality and Addictions Work
 4.1 What Is Spirituality in Counselling and Addictions Work? 5 Admitting Spirituality into Practice5.1 How Much Do We as Counsellors Admit Spirituality into Our Work?
 6 Competence
 6.1 Counsellor Competence with Client Spirituality
 7 Trauma and Change
 7.1 Does Trauma Hold the Potential for Growth-Promoting Change?
 8 Trauma and Spirituality
 8.1 Conceptualising Spirituality in Addiction's Counselling Practice
 Acknowledgement
 Bibliography
 part 2 Contemplating Trauma
 Chapter 6 Transformative Shocks: War Trauma in David Rabe's Sticks and Bones and Sam Shepard's States of Shock
 Bibliography ­chapter 7 'Pinned limb to limb by a ton of rocks': Annihilation in the Face of Captivity and Torture in Alan Cumyn's Man of Bone1 Introduction
 2 Relevant Psycho-Analytical Theories
 3 Stylistic and Compositional Reflection of Trauma
 4 Conclusion
 Bibliography
 ­chapter 8 Writing Trauma, Writing Modern: Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted Vigil and Atiq Rahimi's The Patience Stone
 2 Interrupted Amputation
 3 The Lost Girl and the Lapis Lazuli
 4 More Than Just a Piece of Meat
 5 Rain, Drips, Breaths
 6 Conclusion
 Acknowledgement
 Bibliography
 ­chapter 9 Body and Trauma in Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted