Reading is nice, but a good supervision will be more important...

My suggestion is Wallin, D.J. (2007): Attachment in psychotherapy. There is a chapter on "Unresolved" patients, and therapeutic work with them.

I would recommend you the book by Kohlenberg and Tsai "functional analytic psychotherapy." From a behavioral framework explains the phenomena of transference and countertransference with implications for therapy, including for those with trauma related disorders

The International Journal of Group Psychotherapy had a special issue on countertransference to trauma in January 2005.

Some of the chapters in in "Healing Trauma" might be of use: http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Trauma-Attachment-Mind-Brain/dp/0393703967/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1350995682&sr=8-2&keywords=healing+trauma

You can also consult Allen, Fonagy & Bateman's book "Mentalizing in Clinical Practice" chapter 7 "Treating Attachment Trauma".

Vamik Volkan, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, has published a book on complicated mourning, the reference to which you surely find from his home page (see Google).

Alessandro, I hope this could help ...

http://www.revistadeapra.org.ar/pdf/Noviembre_11/Apego_Fonagy.pdf

I only got this article in spanish but i think there´s a version out there in english is written by Fonagy an Target.

http://baywood.metapress.com/media/f62cqplywg1k4d2v9xaw/contributions/r/v/e/y/rveye7fpma63qy14.pdf

Another one of psycodinamic therapy for bereavement

I think you can also find something in Bervely Raphael´s book:

The Anatomy of Bereavement: A Handbook for the Caring Professions

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tv4jg5d17z0k5qq/Countertransference%20bereaving%20suicide.pdf

One about countertransference

I´ll keep looking for more articles.

Best wishes my friend.

Allen, Bateman, Fonagy "Mentalizing in clinical practice", I guess that is the title... take care in NY! ;-)

Dear Alessandro: I recommend to search in Harvard Review of Pyshciatry articles by John Gunderson and Chou.

Regards

Dear Alessandro, I suggest Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytical Approach Edited by Caroline Garland, Tavistock Clinic Series. An interesting collection of papers and a section on Treatment in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Best Wishes.

Also Sverre Varvin "Mental survival strategies after extreme traumatisation" can be very useful.

best regards

Davies, J.M. & Frawley, M.G. Treating the adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse. A psychoanalytical Perspective. Basic Books, 1994

It may be interesting to look at the following article : Bing, E., & Snyders, F.J.A. (2012). Entering the abyss : Countertransference when working with torturers. South African Journal of Psychology, 42 (2), 282 -289.

Judith Herman's book, Trauma and Recovery, is excellent.

I would recommend Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Christiane Sanderson or Rebuilding Shattered Lives by James A Chu

The evocative context or any other artice by Professor Russell Meares. Along with Robert Hobson he developed the Conversational Model of Psychotherapy. It examines the transference-countertransference system from an inter-subjective perspective

Neumann, D.A., & Gamble, S.J. (1995). Issues in the professional development of psychotherapists: Countertransference and vicarious traumatization in the new trauma therapist. Psychotherapy, 32, 341-347.

Ralph, I. (2001). Countertransference, enactment and sexual abuse. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 27, 285-301.

You may know it already, but I would also recommend the book "Trauma and the avoidant client" by Robert T. Muller

Countertransference experience may provide a path to unspoken or unconscious content that may play an important role for going through difficult experience. Please take a look at my RT "Operationalization of countertransference in Positive Psychotherapy" you can download from my profile on ResearchGate

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Article Operationalization of countertransference in Positive Psychotherapy

Wilson and Lindy's chapter on countertransference in trauma work is really useful. I also think Dori Laub's work on conductin therapy with complicated trauma cases is very useful.

Have you read the following? Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse by Jody Messler Davies and Mary-Gail Frawley. For complicated grief related to 9/11, Adrienne Harris has nice paper in September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds (Eds. Coates, Rosenthal, and Schechter, 2003).

Thank you all for responding!

Peter Fonagy: Destructiveness, Intersubjectivity and Trauma: The Identity Crisis of Modern Psychoanalysis (Developments in Psychoanalysis)

C'é un articolo molto interessante, si chiama Eight Transference-Countertransference Positions, in

http://books.google.cl/books?id=p2Q2HnGxnogC&printsec=frontcover&hl=es#v=onepage&q&f=false

Reading is nice, but a good supervision will be more important...

This wil be the subject of a workshop to be held during the forthcoming European Conference on Traumatic Stress to be held in Bologna in June of this year. I also strongly suggest you contact Professor L Wittman who is the convenor of this workshop. He is at the Department of Psychiatry in University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.

may be you could see e.g. Parktal, A in J of Loss and Trauma (2012), 17, 350-357

Dear Alessandro, most works from contemporary psychoanalytic relational paradigm somehow deal with the topic of the impact of traumatic experiences on transference and countertransference.

To be more focused on your request, I'd suggest going through Russel Meares's Intimacy and Alienation, as well as Phil Bromberg's pubblications, although the latter appears a bit too simplistic.

The question of bereavement is a different one from trauma in my experience, and it is more related to attachment hystory and what Freud called the shadow of the object.

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman is a good introduction to the subject matter.

Hi alessandro, about grief you can read Making Death Thinkable by Franco De Masi, Three Faces of Mourning: Melancholia, Manic Defense and Moving on by Salman Akhtar, and The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression by Darian Leader. I don't know exaclty in what you are interested in, in my opinion the first is a good book exploring how different psychoanalytic theories have addressed the issue of death

Thank you for a fine question Alessandro. As I see it. there is not a real transference at all in the analysis of a traumatized patients analytic relationship. Transference needs a triangular space in the patient's mind. That's the area which has been more or less broken in a traumatized mind. I have read Green, Winnicott is very popular and has a good touch to these problems..

This is a very late response, Alessandro, but my paper Trauma and Countertrauma, Resilience and Counterresilience (Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2014) and the book I am editing of the same name (Routledge, releasing October 2016) deal with exactly the issues you ask about.