Donald Kalsched

1943, USA

PsychoanalysisClinical psychology

American Jungian psychoanalyst. Described how the psyche's self-care system protects the traumatized self but also imprisons it.

Books

  • The Inner World of Trauma (1996)

    Kalsched describes the archetypal self-care system: how the psyche protects the traumatized self with primitive defenses that can become inner prisons.