3 options
Bearing witness : psychoanalytic work with people traumatized by torture and state violence / editors, Andres Gautier and Anna Sabatini Scalmati.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- EFPP clinical monograph series.
- EFPP clinical monograph series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Torture victims--Mental health.
- Torture victims.
- Torture victims--Rehabilitation.
- Torture victims--Psychological aspects.
- Torture victims--Counseling of.
- Torture victims--Medical care.
- Political prisoners--Mental health.
- Political prisoners.
- Political prisoners--Rehabilitation.
- Political prisoners--Psychological aspects.
- Political prisoners--Counseling of.
- Political prisoners--Medical care.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (263 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Karnac Books, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In their discussion of torture, the contributors to this book write of what its victims cannot put into words and the work that has to be done with them to that end. Working with a victim's account of a traumatic experience goes much further than any debriefing technique would have us believe. Above all, victims need someone to listen carefully to what they have to say: that person will be the first to offer a refuge for the pain of those who have no internal "shelter" of their own.
- The authors go on to discuss the kind of mental processing that can free victims from their unspeakable trauma, a trauma that has no framework in time or words with which to express it.' Rene Kaes from the Foreword --Book Jacket.
- Contents:
- COVER; BEARING WITNESS; PART I: FAR AWAY FROM HOME; CHAPTER ONE: EAmbiguity as a defence in extreme trauma; CHAPTER TWO: Routes to the unspeakable: Working with victims of torture; CHAPTER THREE: Social conflicts and psychic suffering; CHAPTER FOUR: Internal homelessness; CHAPTER FIVE: The post-traumatic nightmare: The via regia to unconscious integration?; CHAPTER SIX: The rupture of links in the context of migration: Open mouthed and sewn mouth; PART II: THERE WHERE HORROR HAPPENS; CHAPTER SEVEN: The place of compassion in political conflict; CHAPTER EIGHT: Tell me your story
- CHAPTER NINE: The psychoanalyst: From private witness to public testimonyREFERENCES
- Notes:
- "Published by Karnac for the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78049-257-X
- 0-429-91121-1
- 0-429-89698-0
- 0-429-47221-8
- 1-283-07104-5
- 9786613071040
- 1-84940-752-5
- 9780429472213
- OCLC:
- 723944127
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.