title: Value, trauma, and personal reality.
abstract: It is often said that psychoanalysis is a science of meaning. However, it also concerns value. Although value is a central aspect of personal existence, it is relatively neglected in traditional theory. How value arises in the sphere of the personal is the main theme of this article. A second theme concerns attacks on value, which leave their imprints on the psychic system as unconscious memories that are repeatedly evoked in the therapeutic conversation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Meares
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology