PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATIONS OF TRAUMA: A THEORICAL AND CLINICAL OVERVIEW
More and more, we tend to recognize the specificity of the clinical work done with trauma victims. In the actual context of the welcoming of Syrian refugees, many caregivers assist survivors of extreme situations. Thus, the following article proposes a theoretical and clinical synthesis of some major psychoanalytic currents (Freud, Ferenczi, Winnicott, Bokanowski, and Roussillon) and concepts (containing function, malleable object), our aim being to shed new light on the phenomenon of trauma and provide benchmarks to the clinicians who are inevitably working towards making sense of this unrepresentable experience.