Loss of the Assumptive World

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.

"The chapters in this collection build on theories of the psychology of trauma and psychosocial chnage to discuss psychological disturbance that occurs after a traumatic loss.""The assumptive world is our guide as we organize ourselves and our understanding of the world around us. Trauma attacks those assumptions. This book will help us bridge trauma by using the assumptive world even when it is under attack by the trauma that attacks us." -- The World Pastoral Care Center, Resources Hotline, September 2002"A perfect text for an anxious time...an excellent addition to the literature on trauma. It will be helpful in understanding our clients as well as our responses to world events." -- Clinical Social Work Journal"The richness of this book for the reader is in seeing the same concept from a number of points of view." -- Bereavement Care

• Note from the EditorSeries Editor's ForewordForeword, RonnieJanoff-BulmanAcknowledgmentIntroduction, JeffreyKauffmanConstructing Meaning in a World Broken by theTraumatic Loss of the Assumptive World: Meaning, Self,and Transcendence1. Crisis of Meaning in Trauma and Loss, Irene Smith Landsman2. The Meaning of Your Absence: Traumatic Loss and Narrative Reconstruction Robert A. Neimeyer, Luis Botella, Olga Herrero, MeritxellPacheco, Sara Figueras and Luis AlbertoWerner-Wildner3. How Could God? Loss and the Spiritual Assumptive World, Kenneth Doka4. Questionable Assumptions About Assumptive Worlds, TomAttigRelationships With Self and Others5. The Harm of Trauma: Pathological Fear, Shattered Assumptions, or Betrayal? Anne P. DePrince and Jennifer J.Freyd6. The Assumptive World in the Context of Transference Relationships: A Contribution to Grief Theory, Daniel Liechty7. 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.MilioraPsychological Processes8. Treatment of Violated Assumptive Worlds with EMDR, Roger M.Solomon9. Coping with Challenges to Assumpitive Worlds, Charles A. Corr10. Beyond the Beveled Mirror: Mourning and Recovery from Childhood Maltreatment, SandraL. Bloom11. The "Curse" of Too Good a Childhood, Therese A. Rando12. The Assumptive World of Children, Linda GoldmanTraumatic Loss and What Cannot BeSaid13. Safety and the Assumptive World: A Theory of Traumatic Loss, Jeffrey Kauffman14. What Cannot Be Remembered or Forgotten, Henry Krystal15. Parting Words: Trauma, Silence and Survival, CathyCaruthPostscript by Colin MurrayParkesIndex