Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial, and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance

ISBN-13: 9781032320571 / Miękka / 2023 / 258 str.

Opis

Collecting authoritative contributions, this book combines the life experience of victims with the expertise of scholars and practitioners of human rights, psychoanalysis, and artists to compose a picture that renders the complexity of this crime in its legal, psychological, and social aspects.

Recenzje

"This outstanding collection weaves its intricate threads to connect human rights work with psychoanalysis. To call it ‘interdisciplinary’, though correct, is far too dry. The commitment of those who work in the field of human rights rests on the most profound depth psychological motivations. And psychoanalysis, at its base, is committed to freedom. The crime of enforced disappearance presents a challenge at every level. This book is an amazingly vibrant response."

Andrew Samuels, author of The Political Psyche

"Really important work on the critical link between psychology and human rights. Both disciplines are about healing, much needed to counter the scourge of enforced disappearances."

Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

"This vital new volume both witnesses the suffering and discusses the psychopolitical meaning of the immense human rights violation of disappearing human beings. Assembling an array of authors who are impressively knowledgeable and deeply implicated in this story, Bianchi and Luci's book is a much-needed contribution to the recognition and understanding of one painful and unfortunately representative recent and contemporary political repression."

Jessica Benjamin, psychoanalyst and author of Beyond Doer and Done To: Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third

"In the 1970s, mothers and grandmothers in Argentina looked for the disappeared, fought for the right to the truth, and obtained the adoption of the International Convention. This book, in a profound juridical and psychological analysis of enforced disappearances, shows the sophistication needed to address, from the point of view of victims, relatives, perpetrators, lawyers, and psychotherapists, a crime that unfortunately is still being committed in many countries of the world."

Federico Villegas, former President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador of Argentina to the United Nations

Spis treści

Part 1: Enforced Disappearance in the Contemporary World 1. Enforced disappearances in the contemporary world: The recent contributions of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances  2. The curse of ambiguity: The traumatic memory of victims of enforced disappearance 3. 　Mourning the disappeared: A personal account Part 2: Enforced Disappearance and Human Rights  4. The law in front of the denial of the law  5. The psychological impact of enforced disappearance on victims in light of international human rights law  6. The value and need for incorporating a psychosocial approach to forensic case-work in cases of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, including those who do not survive enforced and involuntary disappearances  7. Fifty shades of suffering? The wavering international jurisprudence on relatives of disappeared persons as victims of human rights violations  8. The fight against impunity for enforced disappearances: A historical and personal account  Part 3: Enforced Disappearance in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytical Perspectives  9. Memories of enforced disappearance: Psychological need and political aim  10. Tortured and disappeared bodies: The problem of ‘knowing’ 11. Enforced disappearances and its perpetrators: The psychosis of total loss  12. "Can you describe this?": United Nations officers and the families of the disappeared  13. Traumatic traces of enforced disappearance through generations: From psychoanalytic theory to a family case study  14. Names without bodies and bodies without names: Ambiguous loss and closure after enforced disappearance  15. An Art Work for the "Jardin des Disparus" – in Meyrin, Switzerland  "QUESTION MARK"

 

　

O autorze

Maria Giovanna Bianchi, PhD, is an analytical psychologist and psychotherapist. She worked for almost three decades as a United Nations Human Rights Officer.

Monica Luci, PhD, is a Jungian and relational psychoanalyst, and a lecturer in refugee care in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies of the University of Essex.