Code: 05135913

Sword of Laban

Name: Sword of Laban
Brand: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
SKU: 05135913
Price: 87.91 EUR
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by William D. Morain

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 278
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 1998
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Book synopsis

AA whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.AALenore Terr, Child Psychiatrist What behavioral patterns could one expect from an adult whose brutal childhood traumas held themes of dismemberment, punishment, and worse? For Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of Mormonism, a religious superstructure of narcissism may have evolved, with sexual and ritualistic features that flowed directly from traumatic events. Joseph suffered unspeakable pain as a seven-year-old child from a leg bone infection and its surgical treatments without anesthesia. He survived as the crippled middle child of an impoverished migrant family, retreating into a fantasy world of violence, persecution, and revenge from which he never completely emerged. As an adolescent, the sudden death of his beloved older brother contributed bizarre bereavement fantasies to an already traumatized psyche. The Sword of Laban examines the Mormon prophetAs enigmatic life in light of current understanding of posttraumatic stress disorder and the dissociation that accompanies it. Dr. Morain traces the repetitive patterns of behavior and fantasies of SmithAs adult life. He demonstrates how the horrifying real events of the surgeries combined with the developmental phaseAspecific fantasies of a seven-year-old boy resulted in permanent pathological distortion of SmithAs entire early psychological growth and developmentAwith significant consequences for his subsequent adult psychological functioning. Dr. MorainAs remarkable psychological study of Joseph Smith, Jr. will be of interest to a wide spectrum of readersAas a social history, religious biography, an account of the dissociative elements in poetic and spiritual genius, or simply a gripping portrait of an ill-fated and tragic man. This text also has a special relevance for clinicians who are changing their theoretical and practical approaches to psychiatric illness.