Ebook: The Unbroken Soul: Tragedy, Trauma, and Human Resilience

MARGARET S. MAHLER SERIES; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 -- THE BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MIRACLE OF HUMAN RESILIENCE; What Is Resilience?; Three Exceptional Men; What Does Their Experience Teach Us?; What Else Do We Need to Know?; References; 2 -- CHILDREN IN WAR AND THEIR RESILIENCES; Constellation That Structures Resilience; Mastering the Meaning We Attribute to the Fact; Making Sense Out of Chaos; Reworking Our Internal Working Model; An Unexpected Finding; Developing a Representation; Reminiscence Is Not Reviviscence; Conclusion; References; Notes.;The contributors to this volume are keenly aware that mental health professionals, while well trained to identify and treat psychopathology, are insufficiently informed or cognizant of human resilience, of how, and of what, intrapsychic, interpersonal, and psychosocial factors are operative in adaptive coping with and recovering from trauma. These authors, several of whom themselves were subjected to severe trauma, address the matter of resilience from the vantage point of their own personal and clinical experiences.