Trauma, culpa y duelo

Synopsis of Trauma, culpa y duelo

This book by Pau Pérez-Sales addresses the psychotherapeutic integration of three irreversible existential phenomena: trauma, guilt, and grief. Presented as a manual and self-training process, the text develops a working model based on integration in psychotherapy. The reader takes a conceptual journey with texts of survivor experiences, personal reflection, and analysis of exercises on psychotherapeutic recordings, accompanied by a DVD with clinical cases. An integrative view of the psychotherapy of guilt is offered, exploring its relationship with identity, values, and implicit norms, as well as the personal meaning of concepts such as responsibility and forgiveness. In addition, a proposal is presented for grief work that intertwines with the experiences of trauma and guilt, combining support in grief with the resignification of these experiences. The manual includes specific techniques for symptom management, from cognitive restructuring to EMDR and hypnosis, and addresses different forms of group work.