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Consequences of Denial
Consequences of Denial seeks to provide some awareness and understanding of the horrendous tragedy of the Armenian genocide. This book illuminates the little known fact that over two million innocent Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Empire between 1894 and 1922; a genocide that has been, and continues to be, denied by successive Turkish governments.
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Handbook of Working with Children, Trauma, and Resilience
This book is a psychoanalytic discussion of the effects of trauma and torture on children, with a specific focus on how professionals can use an approach focused on resiliency rather than vulnerability to encourage childrens psychological development and growth into adulthood. Aida Alayarian argues that in a world where the torture, maltreatment, and neglect of children shamefully persist, it is incumbent upon all of us to intervene appropriately to put a stop to it. Whether in conference rooms developing a more comprehensive policy to hold perpetrators accountable or working in clinics where traumatised children and their families seek help, the question of how we act to improve the opportunity for recovery in children and young people subjected to such inhumane treatment should be our primary concern.
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Trauma, Torture, and Dissociation
Theoretical material is presented in close conjunction with clinical data in the form of vignettes and case studies to illustrate the key points outlined in this book, which focuses on the multidimensional approach to the understanding of childhood trauma. It examines the contributions of psychoanalysis, emphasising the act of 'dissociation' (healthy and unhealthy). Specific attention is given to the internalisation of the m/other/object as the 'listening other', and the dissociated part/s that may results in an over idealised yet feared object. The final discussion focuses on how patients in therapy become able to transform fears into 'psychic space' and to break away from vulnerability, by developing a better 'sense of self', as the result of having the therapist as the 'listening other'.
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Resilience, Suffering, and Creativity
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 ones worst fears, then what purchase can it have on this most ungentle process of becoming a refugee?
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Rationale for development of new measures
This chapter argues that drive theory and its development—the object relations theory, the concept of the self, and some aspects of attachment—constitute important factors in working with refugees. J. Bowlby's exploration of groups of instincts, libido, and aggression, and how they are expressed in striving for attachment and separation, and also how they provide emotional substrate for personality development, is in line with object relations theory. Development of a sense of self for a child is largely by means of their environment and facilitations; opportunities of a society are interceded in personality. The development of the sense of self will start from the beginning of one's life and grows through several stages, including infancy, childhood, preadolescence, early adolescence, late adolescence, and a period of preparatory developmental process towards maturity. Relatedness and development of new attachment can enable the child to note more clearly the dialectical developmental transaction between relatedness and self-definition.
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Resilience
This chapter focuses on the methodology and evaluation of the development of a resilience approach. It explores a resilience-focused approach to working with children of refugees and unaccompanied minors using case studies. Longitudinal studies of risk and resilience, have emphasised the importance of gender in children's responses to adversity. In normal development, dissolution and disintegration may be experienced by an infant as a transitory state. To overcome the temporary and transitory states of mind, one needs strong elasticity and resiliency which is integral to the infant's mind in the process of development, but the idea of dissociation in the refugee's mind who has endured trauma differs from that of the infantile mind. However, refugees who have been deprived of a caring environment in their developmental process may not accumulate that elasticity in mind, and therefore not develop resiliency. The chapter present two examples to demonstrate an unhealthy type of dissociation, which is the result of vulnerability.
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Assessment
This chapter outlines some important factors to consider in the initial assessment of the therapeutic setting with specific attention given to refugee-related issues. Particular emphasis is placed on the importance of gender, and consideration is given to the possible intercultural nature of the therapist–patient dyad in transference–counter transference, free association, and interpretation. The nature of the refugee patients is outlined, highlighting the difficulty and importance of differentiating between needs associated directly with external trauma, and needs resulting from being treated as a transitional object by mothers or other primary caregivers. The clinical characteristics presented in literature and the medical model of diagnosis which is complex, with a wide range of diagnoses and high rates of co-morbidity is not best way of dealing with people with existential traumatic endurance. Epidemiological research by the World Health Organization shows that one out of two people have been or will be seriously traumatised at some point during their life.
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Psychoanalytic perspectives of love
The great importance of aggression as a reactive instinct, an etho-logical perspective of psychoanalytic theory, and the developmental fluctuations of the rise and fall of love require the same attention in connection with one's aggression and hatred within therapeutic dyad. Within the therapeutic dyad, some clients may manifest love and desire for their therapist. One of the facts highlighted in the psychoanalytic literature is the unconscious meaning in the client's repressed aggression that might be disguised by the manifestation of a romantic or altruistic love for the therapist. Love is a desire to enter, maintain, or expand a close, connected, and ongoing relationship with another person. Experiencing and reflecting on analytic love can make therapists more differentiating, determining lovers in all areas of their lives and less sceptical and pessimis tic about the challenges of lasting and tolerating love. For W. R. Bion, love in the beginning is for the mother or nurturing carer.
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