This book discusses 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. It discusses the traumatic scenes that are extreme expressions of historic and political conditions.
Bearing Witness
Dec 31, 2010
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Edited By Andres Gautier, Anna Sabatini Scalmati
Description
Table of Contents
Series Editors’ Preface
Foreword
Introduction
Far Away from Home
Ambiguity as a defence in extreme trauma
Routes to the unspeakable: working with victims of torture
Social conflicts and psychic suffering
Internal homelessness
The post-traumatic nightmare: the via regia to unconscious integration?
The rupture of links in the context of migration: open-mouthed and sewn-mouths
There where Horror Happens
The place of compassion in political conflict
Tell me your story: psychoanalytical trauma psychotherapy in South Africa
The psychoanalyst: from private witness to public testimony
Editors Biography
Gautier, Andres
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