Infant Trauma in Adults

A Jungian Selving Transformation
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-10725-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book delves into the infant’s natural multiplicity as the foundation of the adult, to rediscover the impact of first year, unremembered trauma.

Advancing interdisciplinary inquiry into psychology’s neurobiology, infant research, developmental research, Jungian analytical psychology, and psychoanalysis, Kelly Polanski unveils adult unconscious dissociation at the heart of trauma’s wound. She re-engages nascent part-self-state experience to unlock early psyche-somatic Selving under adverse conditions and to emancipate the spark of vitality trapped inside the gap of trauma, patiently awaiting recovery and renewal—to live. A clinical case of crib trauma vividly demonstrates how Jungian dream analysis uncovers pivotal distinctions in life’s first unconscious psychifying processes to reveal trauma’s chthonic impact and restoration. Changeling mythology illuminates the pathway of this shocking initiation into the dual destiny of the empirical and archetypal child and their epic transformational fate into whole Self experience.

This unique contribution offers adult survivors of infant trauma rediscovery and renewal to live again their precious instinctual spirit of aliveness, and will be of interest to Jungian analysts, as well as psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, body-oriented somatic therapists, social workers, and individuals suffering from trauma.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Polanski, Kelly

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (C.G. Jung)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part 1: Selving  1. Adult Presentation of Earliest Wounding 2. Coming into Being 3. Small Beginnings of First Inner Experience 4. Earliest Wounding  Part 2: Re-accessing the Ground Plan of Our Nature 5. Carl Jung: The Selving Archipelago 6. Michael Fordham: How we Experience the Primary Self 7. Erich Neumann: The Evolving Self in Phase-related Ego-Self Axis Formation 8. The Psychology of Selving Part-Self-States and Trauma 9. Constitutional Part-Self-States Part 3: Therapeutic Transformation of Adult Infant Trauma  10. Adult Case of Unresolved Crib Trauma 11. Archetypal Defensive Selfcare System 12. Body-Self Psychifying Practise 13. Restoring the De-integration—Re-integration Cycle 14. Mystery of the Dual Child 15. Dreams Unconsciously Psychify A New Beginning Part 4: The Mythopoetic Story of Selving The Traumatized Changeling  16. The Moorchild: A Changeling Caught Between Two Worlds

Über Autor(innen)

Kelly Polanski is a Jungian Analyst in private practice and an Accredited Analyst of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. Based in Edmonton, Canada, she lectures and teaches widely on the transformation of infant trauma in adults.