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Interpersonal Trauma and Its Consequences in Adulthood New Edition
Author(s): Agnieszka Widera-Wysoczaska and Alicja Kuczyska (Author), Agnieszka Widera-Wysoczanska (Editor), Alicja Kuczynska (Editor)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2010
- Edition: New Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 201 pages
- ISBN-10: 1443824003
- ISBN-13: 9781443824002
Book Description
The source of this interpersonal psychological trauma is a traumatic event that is repetitive, chronic and complex in nature, and is caused by the action of a closely related person, most frequently in a dysfunctional and pathological family. This book presents studies on the influence of various forms of abuse experienced in childhood on the personal functioning of that individual in adulthood, including resulting life various types of symptoms, problems and personality and neurobiological disorders. It contains also psychotherapeutic issues connected with interpersonal trauma.
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About the Author
Agnieszka Widera-Wysoczanska, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist; Adjunct Professor in the Clinical Department at the Institute of Psychology, Wroc aw University, Poland; and Co-Developer of the Mental Health Center for Persons from Dysfunctional Families. She specializes in interpersonal, chronic and complex childhood trauma in dysfunctional families and in the risk factors of sexual abuse in the families. She is a Psychotherapist of the European Psychotherapy Association, Trauma Specialist, Supervisor in diagnosis and therapy for people after trauma, and Consultatnt in Child Clinical Psychology. She was a member of the National Agency Against Family Violence (2007 2009). She has authored books entitled Dialog About Dying: Hermeneutical Approaches (2000) and Mechanism of Abuse in the Family: From Generation to Generation (2010), and has published numerous articles on related topics. Alicja Kuczyska, PhD, is a Clinical and Social Psychologist. She is a Professor and Head of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, Wrocaw University, Poland. She is Editor of the Polish Journal of Applied Psychology. Her main field of interest is concerned with human bonding in social and personal relationships, from the point of view of evolution and social theories (e.g. sex and gender as well as other non-verbal aspects). For the last ten years she has been focusing her interest on borderline personality disorders.
