AcknowledgmentsIntroductionIFreud and TraumaIIThe Real Miss Beauchamp: An Early Case of Traumatic DissociationIIITraumatic Cures: Shell Shock, Janet, and the Question of MemoryIVImitation Magic: Sandor Ferenczi and Abram Kardiner on Psychic TraumaVThe Hysterical Lie: Ferenczi and the Problem of SimulationVISplinting the Mind: William Sargant and Catharsis in World War IIVIIThe Science of the Literal: The Neurobiology of TraumaVIIIThe Pathos of the Literal: Trauma and the Crisis of RepresentationConclusionIndex