History Beyond Trauma

Author

Françoise Davoine

Original Work

History and Trauma: The Madness of Wars

Translator

Susan Fairfield

Language

English

Year

2004

Publisher

Other Press

Country

United States

Pages

312

ISBN

9781590511114

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In order to show how the therapeutic approach to trauma was developed on the basis of war psychiatry, the authors ground their clinical theory in the work of Thomas Salmon, an American doctor from the time of the First World War. In their case studies, they illustrate how three of the four Salmon principles–proximity, immediacy, and expectancy–affect the handling of the transference-countertransference relationship. The fourth principle, simplicity, shapes the style in which the authors address— Google Books