Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury

Micro-trauma: A psychoanalytic understanding of cumulative psychic injury looks at "micro-traumatic" subtle psychic hurts that build up to undermine a person's self-worth.

Author: Margaret Crastnopol
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01/22/2015
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780415800365

About the Author

Margaret Crastnopol (Peggy), Ph.D., is a faculty member of the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and a supervisor of psychotherapy at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. She is also a training and supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. She writes and teaches nationally and internationally about the analyst's and patient's subjectivity; the vicissitudes of love, lust, and attachment drives; and varieties of micro-trauma. She is in private practice for the treatment of individuals and couples in Seattle, Washington.