Bearing Witness: Psychoanalytic Work with People Traumatised by Torture and State Violence

ISBN-13: 9781855757967 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 200 str.

Andres Gautier; Anna Sabatini Scalmati

Opis

-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 nor words with which to express it.

Under the skilful editorship of Andres Gautier and Anna Sabatini, this book asks of both psychoanalysts and politicians a question that goes right to the heart of their 'impossible professions'.-
--Rene Kaes, From the Foreword

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Gautier, Andres