Psychological Growth After Trauma

Psychological Growth After Trauma is a guide to moving away from assumptions about trauma as a simple form of 'psychological damage.'

Simon Wharne is a chartered counselling psychologist and existential psychotherapist who has experience in clinical practice, leadership, and education.

1. Introduction: The Possibility of Posttraumatic Growth Part 1: New Awareness in the Experience of Women 2. Birth Trauma and Existential Crisis: How Becoming a Mother Involves a Confrontation with Existence 3. Experiences of Women Living Beyond Rape and Interpersonal Violence Part 2: Developing a Self Through Early Life Trauma 4. Emerging from Adolescent Sexual Grooming: The Need for Truth 5. The Coexistence of Posttraumatic Stress and Posttraumatic Growth Related to Childhood Trauma Part 3: Encountering Death 6. Living with Traumatic Bereavement 7. Surviving Near Death Following Cardiac Arrest Part 4: In the Aftermath of Colonialism, Political Conflict, and War 8. Lived Experiences of Antiblack Racism: Is the Impact Always a Permanent Psychological Scar, or Can There Be Growth? 9. Political Refugees: Rising Above Trauma 10. The Impact of Active Military Service on Intimate Relationships: Trauma, Breakdown, and Breakthrough 11. Trauma: The Search for a Poisoned Chalice? Part 5: Trauma as it Emerges in the Therapeutic Encounter 12. Applying a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Lens: A Literary Review Observes the Impact of Client Suicide on the Therapist 13. Carrying the Torch of Hope: An Investigation into the Experiences of Shared Interpersonal Trauma in the Therapeutic Relationship 14. Vicarious Trauma and Growth in Mental Health Workers Part 6: Making Sense of Our Work with Trauma 15. Trauma and Existence: Existential-Humanistic Understandings of Trauma, with Existential-Analytic and Phenomenological Implications for Practice