First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Doris Brothers, Ph.D., a psychologist and psychoanalyst with a private practice in New York City, is a cofounder and training and supervising analyst at The Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology. Her previous publications include Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self Experience (W. W. Norton, 1995) and The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (Analytic Press, 1988), which she wrote with Richard B. Ulman.

She is currently participating in an online discussion group based on her recent paper "Trust, Uncertainty, and Therapeutic Alliance in Trauma-Centered Treatment" (http://blogs.confer.uk.com/).

The Laboratory and the Labyrinth: An Introduction. Making the Unbearable Bearable: Regulation, Expectation and the Experience of Existential Uncertainty. Trauma as Exile: Terror, Shame and the Destruction of Certainty. Sanctuary on the Ledge: Trauma-Centered Treatment. Muting the Sirens of Certainty: Beyond Dichotomous Gender and the Oedipus Complex. To Die with Our Dead: Ghosts, Ghouls and the Denial of Life. Faith, False Gods and the Surrender of Certitude. In the Ashes of Burnout: Lost (and Found) Faith. Epilogue: Rewinding the Thread.