Transforming Trauma

Therapeutic action with a traumatized paraplegic patient highlights the evocative—and transformative—influence of the relational unconscious. The patient’s triumphant resolution suggests that formative bipersonal dynamics (including transference, countertransference, and mutual projective identifications) create an ongoing intersubjective enactment and relational chemistry pivotal to psychic shift. A broad systems perspective highlights contextual communication and the interweaving of the analyst’s etiological contributions and subjective experience of trauma. Ultimately, an unconscious, co-created dynamic challenges traumatic fixations, supporting a reintegration of narcissistic, gender, and erotic representations and ego capacities. An eclectic perspective that illuminates the analyst’s role-receptivity encompasses classical, object relations, relational, systems, and self psychological paradigms

Attunement · Countertransference · Developmental psychology · Id, ego and super-ego · Object relations theory · Perspective (graphical) · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Self · Transference · Transformative learning · Unconscious mind · Computer Science · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Medicine · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy

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