Resilience, Suffering and Creativity
Subtitle: the Work of the Refugee Therapy Centre
By: Aida Alayarian
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780429479595
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Psychanalyse
Description: "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?"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Copy Right; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Trauma, resilience, and creativity; CHAPTER TWO: Resilience: a case illustration; CHAPTER THREE: Memory for trauma; CHAPTER FOUR: The therapeutic needs of those fleeing persecution and violence, now and in the future; CHAPTER FIVE: 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; CHAPTER SIX: Loss of network support piled on trauma: thinking more broadly about the context of refugees; title: CHAPTER SEVEN: Hearing the unhearable, speaking the unspeakable: original wounds, trauma, and the asylum seekerCHAPTER EIGHT: How I became a psychoanalyst; CHAPTER NINE: My experience of clinical work with refugees and asylum seekers; CHAPTER TEN: Boundary problems and compassion; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Reflections on alternative organizational structures for charitable agencies