Dynamic psychotherapy with adult survivors : living past neglect / Lori Bennett.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Listening for neglect -- But nothing happened! Redefining childhood neglect -- Post-traumatic stress revisited -- Magical thinking: finding power in helplessness -- Weight matters: using food for comfort -- Gone too soonL when death leads to neglect -- At home with incest: the paved road from neglect to abuse -- Broken promise of love: addicted parents and neglect -- Adoption and neglect -- Working with neglect -- It wasn't that bad! Working with defensive structure -- Integration of deprivation: intrusive thoughts and hypervigilance -- Working with the Introject -- Neglect in the news -- Grief and its relationship to neglect and abuse -- Understanding developmental theory in relation to neglect -- Developing object constancy in adults -- Overcoming the neglect scenario -- Working through transferance in relationships -- Working through countertransferance issues -- Correction by projection -- Therapeutic tools for working with adult survivors of neglect -- Therapeutic environment -- For therapists with neglect histories.