The Indescribable and the Undiscussable : : Reconstructing Human Discourse after Trauma / / Dan Bar-On.

People--laymen and practitioners alike--face serious difficulties in making sense of each other's feelings, behavior, and discourse in everyday life and after traumatic experiences. Acknowledging and working through these difficulties is the subject of this extremely interesting and highly read...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
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Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [1998]
©1998
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (326 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The indescribable: "soft" impediments to discourse
  • 1. Multiple representations: maps of mind and nature
  • 2 Subjective theories of cardiac patients
  • 3. Negotiating attributions: developing a constructive dialog
  • 4. Feeling-facts: searching for words related to feelings
  • Interlude
  • 5. Pure and impure ideologies: the change of social contexts
  • Part II. Severe impediments to discourse
  • Introduction
  • 6. Silenced facts from the victimizers' perspective
  • 7. Silenced facts from the victims' perspective
  • 8. My father and I: constructing a mora! imagination
  • 9. Psychosocial learning from experience
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • Index