Psychological Growth After Trauma is a guide to moving away from assumptions about trauma as a simple form of psychological damage.
Psychological Growth After Trauma is a guide to moving away from assumptions about trauma as a simple form of psychological damage. Each chapter promotes an understanding of difficult experiences as learning opportunities that help us attune to the reality of existence and become more at ease with the truths that trigger our anxieties.
The book holds close to a phenomenological stance in which understanding emerges through experience and reflection. This is not a book that argues for a model that practitioners would be required to adopt and impose on their clients. Instead, Psychological Growth After Trauma brings insights and explorations together, allowing the reader to build their own framework for understanding.
1. Introduction: The Possibility of Posttraumatic Growth Part 1: New
Awareness in the Experience of Women
2. Birth Trauma and Existential Crisis:
How Becoming a Mother Involves a Confrontation with Existence
3. Experiences
of Women Living Beyond Rape and Interpersonal Violence Part 2: Developing a
Self Through Early Life Trauma
4. Emerging from Adolescent Sexual Grooming:
The Need for Truth
5. The Coexistence of Posttraumatic Stress and
Posttraumatic Growth Related to Childhood Trauma Part 3: Encountering Death
6. Living with Traumatic Bereavement
7. Surviving Near Death Following
Cardiac Arrest Part 4: In the Aftermath of Colonialism, Political Conflict,
and War
8. Lived Experiences of Antiblack Racism: Is the Impact Always a
Permanent Psychological Scar, or Can There Be Growth?
9. Political Refugees:
Rising Above Trauma
10. The Impact of Active Military Service on Intimate
Relationships: Trauma, Breakdown, and Breakthrough
11. Trauma: The Search for
a Poisoned Chalice? Part 5: Trauma as it Emerges in the Therapeutic Encounter
12. Applying a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Lens: A Literary Review Observes
the Impact of Client Suicide on the Therapist
13. Carrying the Torch of Hope:
An Investigation into the Experiences of Shared Interpersonal Trauma in the
Therapeutic Relationship
14. Vicarious Trauma and Growth in Mental Health
Workers Part 6: Making Sense of Our Work with Trauma
15. Trauma and
Existence: Existential-Humanistic Understandings of Trauma, with
Existential-Analytic and Phenomenological Implications for Practice
Simon Wharne is a chartered counselling psychologist and existential psychotherapist who has experience in clinical practice, leadership, and education.
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