Download or read book Understanding Trauma written by Caroline Garland and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition with additional chapter. This book, from the Tavistock Clinic Series, is about what follows the breakdown in functioning, either short or longer-term, provoked by a traumatic event. The authors offer a psychoanalytical understanding of the meaning of the trauma for an individual, illuminating theory with detailed clinical illustration and case histories. A range of therapeutic procedures is described.