Terror Within and Without: Attachment and Disintegration: Clinical Work on the Edge

118 Pages·2013·0.34 MB·English

by  Judy Yellin

TERROR WITHIN AND WITHOUT
The John Bowlby Memorial Conference Monographs Series
Other titles in this series:
Touch: Attachment and the Body
edited by Kate White
Unmasking Race, Culture, and Attachment in the Psychoanalytic Space
edited by Kate White
Sexuality and Attachment in Clinical Practice
edited by Kate White and Joseph Schwartz
Trauma and Attachment
edited by Sarah Benamer and Kate White
Shattered States: Disorganized Attachment and Its Repair
edited by Judy Yellin and Kate White
TERROR WITHIN
AND WITHOUT
Attachment and Disintegration:
Clinical Work on the Edge
THE JOHN BOWLBY MEMORIAL
CONFERENCE MONOGRAPH 2008
Edited by
Judy Yellin and Orit Badouk Epstein
The John Bowlby Memorial Conference Monographs
Series Editor: Kate White
First published in 2013 by
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Copyright © 2013 to Judy Yellin and Orit Badouk Epstein for the edited
collection, and to the individual authors for their contributions.
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ix
INTRODUCTION xiii
CHAPTER ONE
Attachment theory and the John Bowlby Memorial
Lecture 2008: a short history 1
Bernice Laschinger
CHAPTER TWO
A white boy goes to Mississippi 9
Joseph Schwartz
CHAPTER THREE
Intergenerational transmission of massive trauma:
the Holocaust 21
Adah Sachs
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vi CONTENTS
CHAPTER FOUR
The place of fear in attachment theory and psychoanalysis:
the fifteenth John Bowlby Memorial Lecture 39
Arietta Slade
CHAPTER FIVE
States of terror and terrorist states: oppression and liberation
in political and therapeutic contexts 59
Dick Blackwell
CHAPTER SIX
Stepping into the void of dissociation: a therapist and
a client in search of a meeting place 73
Shoshi Asheri
APPENDIX I
Reading list 87
APPENDIX II
Introduction to The Bowlby Centre 91
INDEX 95
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to the John Bowlby Memorial Conference 2008 Planning Group:
Orit Badouk Epstein, Sarah Benamer, Judith Erskine, Briony Mason,
Annie Gerald Webb, Judy Yellin, and Richard Bowlby for their crea-
tive work in producing yet another stimulating and groundbreaking
conference which has enabled the emergence of this important publica-
tion. A special thank you to all the contributors to the conference whose
profound, creative, and courageous work can now reach a much wider
audience.
Finally, thanks to our 15th John Bowlby Memorial Lecturer 2008,
Arietta Slade whose original and vital presentation provided a con-
text for the leading edge clinical discussions emerging out of this
conference.
A special thank you to Oliver Rathbone for his continuing belief in
the value of publishing these monographs and to Rod Tweedy and his
team from Karnac Books for their patience and support in its produc-
tion and publication.
Kate White
Series Editor, John Bowlby Memorial Conference Monographs
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ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Shoshi Asheri is a psychotherapist, supervisor, and trainer. She teaches
at the Minster Centre for Integrative Psychotherapy and other psycho-
therapeutic organisations in the UK and Israel. She was a member of the
training director’s team at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy.
She is a founding member of the Relational School, UK and a member
of its executive committee. A central enquiry in both her teaching and
writing is the invisible, implicit, and uncanny bond of connection and
disconnection in the intersubjective field with a particular interest in
embodiment as a navigating guide in the therapeutic encounter. She
has a private practice in London where she works with individuals,
couples, and groups.
Orit Badouk Epstein is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psycho-
therapist (UKCP registered) and a supervisor working in private prac-
tice. She works relationally with all client groups and has a particular
interest and passion for working with individuals who have experienced
extreme abuse and trauma displaying symptoms of dissociation. Orit is
a trustee for the Clinic of Dissociative Studies. She is co-author of the
recently published book Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: the Manipulation
of Attachment Needs (Karnac). She regularly writes articles and film and
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