Shattered AssumptionsThis book investigates the psychology of victimization. It shows how fundamental assumptions about the world's meaningfulness and benevolence are shattered by traumatic events, and how victims become subject to self-blame in an attempt to accommodate brutality. The book is aimed at all those who for personal or professional reasons seek to understand what psychological trauma is and how to recover from it. |
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Contents
Cognitive Conservatism and Resistance to Change | 26 |
Trauma and the Terror of Our Own Fragility | 49 |
Disillusionment and Change in the Assumptive | 70 |
Processing the Powerful New Data | 93 |
Interpreting | 115 |
The Crucial Role of Other | 142 |
Some Final Thoughts | 169 |
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Page 3 - For the philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Shattered Assumptions |
| Author | Ronnie Janoff-Bulman |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 2010 |
| ISBN | 145160372X, 9781451603729 |
| Length | 272 pages |
| Subjects | › › Psychology / General Psychology / Psychopathology / General Psychology / Psychotherapy / General Self-Help / Personal Growth / General |
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