Psychoanalysis in Social and Cultural Settings: Upheavals and Resilience

ISBN-13: 9781032072364 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 268 str.

Sverre Varvin

Opis

Psychoanalysis in Social and Cultural Settings examines the theory and practice of psychoanalysis with patients who have experienced deeply traumatic experiences, through war, forced migration, atrocities and other social and cultural dislocations.

 

Spis treści

Part I: Social terror; 1.Terror and mourning in Norway; 2. Psychoanalysis and the situation of refugees. A Human Rights perspective; 3. Genocide and ethnic cleansing: Psychoanalytic and social-psychological viewpoints; 4. Humiliation and the victim identity in conditions of political and violent conflict; 5. Fundamentalist mindset; Part II: The situation of refugees: The enigma of traumatisation; 6.Our relations to refugees: Between compassion and dehumanization; 7. The present past: Extreme traumatisation and psychotherapy; 8. The influence of extreme traumatisation on body, mind and social relations; 9. Psychoanalysis with the traumatised patient: Helping to survive extreme experiences and complicated loss; Part III: Research; 10. When dreaming doesn't work: traumatic dreams, anxiety and the capacity to symbolise; 11. "The essay method": A qualitative method for studying therapeutic dialogues; Part IV: Psychoanalysis in China: A transformative dialogue; 12. "Yu Hua: A narrator of Chinese recent history"; 13. Western-Eastern differences in habits and ways of thinking: The influence on understanding, and teaching psychoanalytic therapy

O autorze

Sverre Varvin is a training analyst at the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society and professor emeritus at Oslo Metropolitan University. He has extensive experience in research and clinical work with severely traumatised people. He is a leading person in the development of psychoanalytic therapy in China as chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) China Committee.