Resilience, Suffering and Creativity

by Alayarian, Aida

• ISBN13: 9781855754614
• ISBN10: 1855754614
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780429918599
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-30
• Publisher: KARNAC BOOKS
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Summary

The trauma of refugee status is particularly corrosive. It does the usual harm of devastating our own self-image and sense of permanence in the world, but it does more. It is a dislocation from our familiar domestic geography and culture, and that must wrench from our grasp all the external markers by which we know ourselves and our worth. The threat of persecution, torture, and death is aimed at a complete destabilization. The result is a complex of anxieties that add up to far more than simple suffering. If therapy is primarily aimed at the gentle exposure of one's worst fears, then what purchase can it have on this most ungentle process of becoming a refugee?

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

About the Editor and Contributors

Foreword

Introduction

Trauma, Resilience, and Creativity

Resilience: A Case Illustration

Memory for Trauma

The Therapeutic Needs of Those Fleeing Persecution and Violence, Now and in the Future

Does it Matter How Much Can Be Put Into Words? Complexities of Speech and the Place of Other Forms of Communication in Therapeutic Work with Refugees

Loss of Network Support Piled on Trauma: Thinking More Broadly About the Context of Refugees

Hearing the Unhearable, Speaking the Unspeakable: Original Wounds, Trauma and the Asylum Seeker

How I Became a Psychoanalyst

My Experience of Clinical Work with Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Boundary Problems and Compassion

Reflections on Alternative Organization Structures for Charitable Agencies

Index

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