How long does it take to read Trauma And The Soul A Psychospiritual Approach To Human Development And Its Interruption?
Trauma And The Soul A Psychospiritual Approach To Human Development And Its Interruption by Donald Kalsched takes about 6 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 13 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2012. 339 pages, about 93,225 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"In Trauma and the Soul, Donald Kalsched continues the exploration he began in his first book, The Inner World of Trauma (1996)—this time going further into the mystical or spiritual moments that often occur around the intimacies of psychoanalytic work. Through extended clinical vignettes, including therapeutic dialogue and dreams, he shows how depth psychotherapy with trauma’s survivors can open both analytic partners to "another world" of non-ordinary reality in which daimonic powers reside, both light and dark. This mytho-poetic world, he suggests, is not simply a defensive product of our struggle with the harsh realities of living as Freud suggested, but is an everlasting fact of human experience—a mystery that is often at the very center of the healing process, and yet at other times, strangely resists it. With these "two worlds" in focus, Kalsched explores a variety of themes as he builds, chapter by chapter, an integrated psycho-spiritual approach to trauma and its treatment ..."--Publisher description.
Subjects: Psychic trauma, Dreams, Case studies, Soul, Jungian Theory, Dissociative Disorders
