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Loss of the Assumptive World

A Theory of Traumatic Loss

• Edited by Jeffrey Kauffman

• Price: $37.95 $34.16
• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 336
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 28th June 2002
• ISBN: 978-1-58391-313-0

About the Book

The assumptive world concept is a psychological principle of the conservation of human reality or "culture" - it is a lens for seeing the psychological disturbances that occur in times of change. In this collection, the authors examine the assumptive world from diverse theoretical perspectives, providing the reader with an array of different viewpoints illuminating the concept and its clinical usefulness.

Table of Contents

Note from the Editor
Series Editor's Foreword
Foreword, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman
Acknowledgment
Introduction, Jeffrey Kauffman
Constructing Meaning in a World Broken by the Traumatic Loss of the Assumptive World: Meaning, Self, and Transcendence
1. Crisis of Meaning in Trauma and Loss, Irene Smith Landsman
2. The Meaning of Your Absence: Traumatic Loss and Narrative Reconstruction Robert A. Neimeyer, Luis Botella, Olga Herrero, Meritxell Pacheco, Sara Figueras and Luis Alberto Werner-Wildner
3. How Could God? Loss and the Spiritual Assumptive World, Kenneth Doka
4. Questionable Assumptions About Assumptive Worlds, Tom Attig
Relationships With Self and Others
5. The Harm of Trauma: Pathological Fear, Shattered Assumptions, or Betrayal? Anne P. DePrince and Jennifer J. Freyd
6. The Assumptive World in the Context of Transference Relationships: A Contribution to Grief Theory, Daniel Liechty
7. A Self-Psychological Study of Experiences of Near Loss of Life One's Own Life or the Dying or Death of a Close Relative: The Shattered-Fantasy Model of Traumatic Loss, Richard B. Ulman and Maria T. Miliora
Psychological Processes
8. Treatment of Violated Assumptive Worlds with EMDR, Roger M. Solomon
9. Coping with Challenges to Assumpitive Worlds, Charles A. Corr10. Beyond the Beveled Mirror: Mourning and Recovery from Childhood Maltreatment, Sandra L. Bloom
11. The "Curse" of Too Good a Childhood, Therese A. Rando
12. The Assumptive World of Children, Linda Goldman
Traumatic Loss and What Cannot Be Said
13. Safety and the Assumptive World: A Theory of Traumatic Loss, Jeffrey Kauffman
14. What Cannot Be Remembered or Forgotten, Henry Krystal
15. Parting Words: Trauma, Silence and Survival, Cathy Caruth
Postscript by Colin Murray Parkes
Index

About the Author(s)

Jeffrey Kauffman is a psychotherapist in private practice in Philadelphia and an instructor at the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. He specializes in the treatment of grief and trauma.