If someone speaks, it gets lighter : dreams and the reconstruction of infant trauma

1 Introduction. 2 Freud; trauma, reconstruction, and memory. 3 Infant and childhood trauma. 4 Psychoanalytic reconstruction. 5 Prenatal and neonatal mental life. 6 Infant memory. 7 Reconstruction of infant trauma; cases from the literature. 8 Psychoanalytic dream theory. 9 Reconstruction of infant trauma from analytic dream material; clinical examples. 10 Conclusion

'Can the newborn infant accurately record traumatic experiene? Can early traumas be retained in memory. How would such traumatic memories affect later development? Where should we look for evidence of such traumas in adult patients? [This book] provides surprising answers to these questions....when trauma can be reexperienced meaningfully in treatment, both behavioral reenactments and trauma-related transference issues can be dramatically clarified....emphasizes the special value of dream interpretation in recovering the full psychological impact of events that occurred in the first few years of life.'

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