The Intimate Edges of Psychotherapy for Complex Trauma

In Tandem

Rebecca Klott, Richard Raubolt, Loray Daws

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040402399
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

The Intimate Edges of Psychotherapy for Complex Trauma is a personal account of an analysis spanning more than 20 years, written by practicing psychoanalysts.

This book is the first to document an on-going analysis where both analyst and analysand are seasoned psychologists capable of articulating the relational analytic process theoretically and personally. Rebecca Klott shares a narrative of complex, severe sexual and emotional trauma, with commentary provided by her analyst, Richard Raubolt. Klott and Raubolt create an embodied dialogue, exposing what treatment is like for both the severely traumatized patient and the clinician tasked with helping the patient work toward healing. Through this intimate vantage point, the reader journeys with both patient and clinician as they encounter the breakdowns and breakthroughs that are a part of the process of healing.

The Intimate Edges of Psychotherapy for Complex Trauma will be essential reading for clinicians, trainees, and students in the fields of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, counseling, social work, and counseling and clinical psychology.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Endorsements
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Letter to the Reader
• 1 The Beginning
• 2 Attaching: Part One
• 3 Attaching: Part Two
• 4 A Whole New Way of Reliving Trauma
• 5 The PhD Program Years
• 6 And, Again
• 7 Living with the Possibility of Goodbye and Post-Traumatic Growing
• 8 On the Writing Cure
• 9 On Ontological Survival and the Children of the Second Birth
• Index