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Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury by Margaret Crastnopol, Routledge, New York, 2015, 268pp.

Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury by Margaret Crastnopol,... The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2017, 77, (201–202) 2017 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/17 www.palgrave.com/journals Book Reviews Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury by Margaret Crastnopol, Routledge, New York, 2015, 268pp. This valuable book deserves an audience of clinicians and interested public alike. Crastnopol applies contemporary psychoanalytic understanding of early develop- ment: the micro-analytic study of early patterns of communication between parents and infants, and assessment of attachment styles in infancy (she cites the work of Beebe & Lachmann, 2014; Tronick & Beeghly, 2011). She builds on the formulations that different styles of relating, predictive of later psychopathology, evolve in childhood, and that attention to the details of repeated interactions can yield important truths about the emotional life of an individual. Micro-trauma, as Crastnopol will define it, is made of small, subtle, interactive moments that are repeated, most often between parents and children, which accrue into a style of relating that will distort adolescent and adult relationships both within and beyond the family. Evocative titles capture seven common patterns of relating: Unkind Cutting Back, Connoisseurship Gone Awry, Uneasy Intimacy, Psychic Airbrushing, Chronic Entrenchment, Unbridled Indignation, and Little Murders. Some of these patterns twist communications with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury by Margaret Crastnopol, Routledge, New York, 2015, 268pp.

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2017 by Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
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Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
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0002-9548
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1573-6741
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2017, 77, (201–202) 2017 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/17 www.palgrave.com/journals Book Reviews Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury by Margaret Crastnopol, Routledge, New York, 2015, 268pp. This valuable book deserves an audience of clinicians and interested public alike. Crastnopol applies contemporary psychoanalytic understanding of early develop- ment: the micro-analytic study of early patterns of communication between parents and infants, and assessment of attachment styles in infancy (she cites the work of Beebe & Lachmann, 2014; Tronick & Beeghly, 2011). She builds on the formulations that different styles of relating, predictive of later psychopathology, evolve in childhood, and that attention to the details of repeated interactions can yield important truths about the emotional life of an individual. Micro-trauma, as Crastnopol will define it, is made of small, subtle, interactive moments that are repeated, most often between parents and children, which accrue into a style of relating that will distort adolescent and adult relationships both within and beyond the family. Evocative titles capture seven common patterns of relating: Unkind Cutting Back, Connoisseurship Gone Awry, Uneasy Intimacy, Psychic Airbrushing, Chronic Entrenchment, Unbridled Indignation, and Little Murders. Some of these patterns twist communications with

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