Dancing between Hope and Despair

Trauma, Attachment and the Therapeutic Relationship

Dancing between Hope and Despair

Trauma, Attachment and the Therapeutic Relationship

Sue Wright (Author)

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Why is hope so fundamental to our existence? Hope is increasingly being acknowledged as an important factor both for people's resilience and for positive therapeutic outcomes. In considering this and many other questions, this evocative textbook introduces the reader to the repeated shifting, or 'dance', between hope and despair that is so often encountered by practitioners working with profoundly traumatised individuals.

This book brings a sharp focus to the ways in which therapeutic relationships can draw individuals out of the constant oscillation between light and dark. It provides an insightful and thoughtful discussion not just about despair itself, but about how to be with despair. Informed by the author's own years of experience in the field of psychotherapy, this engaging and stimulating book provides practical guidance on how students, trainees and practitioners can inspire fresh hope in deeply troubled clients.

1. Introducing the Dance
2. Desperately Seeking the 'Happy Ever After': Some Theoretical Perspectives on Hope
3. Hoping, Imagining and Dreaming: An Evolutionary Perspective
4. Our Need for Hope and its Roots in Childhood
5. The Impact of Trauma as a Hope Destroyer Across the Life-cycle
6. When Hoping Keeps People Alive: Non Mentalised States and the Need for Illusions
7. The Internal Dance of Hope and Despair: Dissociation and Shifting Self States
8. Systemic Perspectives: Our Responses to Getting Stuck in Cycles of Hope and Despair
9. Working with Hopelessness from a Relational Perspective
10. Finding New Perspectives
11. Moving into Hope: New Meanings and New Experiences

Product details

Published	16 Sep 2017
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	1st
Extent	232
ISBN	9781137441249
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Sue Wright

Sue Wright is an Integrative Psychotherapist who s…

This is a comprehensive and accessible, well-researched, and up-to-date “how-to” book on trauma therapy. It integrates the best of old and new psychological theories, supports work with mind and body, embraces the transpersonal, and is beautifully written with helpful case illustrations, great compassion and honesty, and an inclusive attitude towards struggling clients.

Alexandra Maeja Raicar, Counsellor and Psychotherapist
This is a comprehensive and accessible, well-researched, and up-to-date 'how-to' book on trauma therapy … It seems to me that in any human endeavour hope and faith are closely intertwined, and so it is appropriate that Wright ends this thought-provoking book … with a quote from Albert Schweitzer (1968): 'all work that is worth anything is done in faith.'

Alexandra Maeja Raicar, Attachment Journal, Vol. 14