Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma

Rising above the polemics surrounding sexual and physical abuse <B>David and Jill Savege Scharff</B> bring a relational perspective to the integration of psychoanalytic and trauma theories in order to understand the effects of overwhelming physical and psychological trauma including sexual abuse injury and birth defect. The Scharffs draw from their object relations therapy with individuals families and couples recovering from trauma and abundance of relevant clinical examples described in their characteristically personal and vivid style.