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by Richard B. Gartner (Editor)
Treating traumatized patients famously takes its toll on the treating clinician, giving rise over time to a countertrauma in the psychoanalyst or therapist. Gartner has gathered a distinguished group of clinicians whose personal reflections do what clinicians do all too rarely; disclose their own traumatic material, and discuss how they have developed models for acknowledging, articulating and synthesizing the countertrauma that arises from long term exposure to patients' trauma. The book also covers how patients' resilience evokes counterresilience in the therapist, allowing the clinician to benefit from ongoing contact with patients who deal bravely with their own personal difficulties.
Author Biography
Richard B. Gartner, Ph.D., is Training and Supervising Analyst, Faculty, and Founding Director of the Sexual Abuse Service at the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute, which has honored him with its Director's Award for his contributions to the psychoanalytic understanding of trauma. In 2021, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from APA's Division 56 (Trauma Psychology). He is the author of Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men (1999), runner up for the Gradiva Award for Best Book on a Clinical Subject given by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP), as well as Beyond Betrayal: Taking Charge of Your Life after Boyhood Sexual Abuse (2005). He also edited Memories of Sexual Betrayal: Truth, Fantasy, Repression, and Dissociation (1996) and serves on the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is a co-founder and Past President of MaleSurvivor.org, which honored him by establishing an award in his name for Clinical Contributions; is a Fellow of the Divisions of Psychoanalysis and Trauma of the American Psychological Association; and is Faculty for the Trauma Treatment Center at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. A pioneer in treating sexually abused men, Dr. Gartner has written and spoken widely about the subject and was most recently awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association's Division of Trauma Psychology (2021).
