Trust and Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Study in Human Nature

by Michael Oppenheim

Book Overview

This interdisciplinary text brings together perspectives from leading psychoanalysts and modern Jewish philosophers to offer a unique investigation into the dynamic between the fundamental trust in the self, other persons, and the world, and the devastating force of emotional trauma.

Chapters examine the challenges of witnessing and acknowledging suffering; trust in God; and the traumatic effects of the Holocaust. The result is a deeper understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367458705
• ISBN13: 9780367458706
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"