Bearing witness : psychoanalytic work with people traumatized by torture and state violence / editors, Andrés Gautier and Anna Sabatini Scalmati.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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pt. I FAR AWAY FROM HOME -- -- Ambiguity as a defence in extreme trauma / Silvia Amati Sas -- Routes to the unspeakable : Working with victims of torture / Mary Raphaely -- Social conflicts and psychic suffering / Anna Sabatini Scalmati -- Internal homelessness / Alejandro Reyes -- The post-traumatic nightmare : The via regia to unconscious integration? / Liselotte Grunbaum -- The rupture of links in the context of migration : Open mouthed and sewn mouth / Shadman Mahmoud-Shwana -- -- pt. II THERE WHERE HORROR HAPPENS -- -- The place of compassion in political conflict / Gabriela Mann -- Tell me your story : Psychoanalytical trauma psychotherapy in South Africa / Katharina Ley -- The psychoanalyst : From private witness to public testimony / Andres Gautier.

'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

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