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Title Resilience, suffering, and creativity : the work of the Refugee Therapy Centre / edited by Aida Alayarian
Published London : Karnac, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 194 pages)
Contents Trauma, resilience, and creativity / Aida Alayarian -- Resilience : a case illustration / Aida Alayarian -- Memory for trauma / Stuart Turner -- The therapeutic needs of those fleeing persecution and violence, now and in the future / Lennox K. Thomas -- Does it matter how much can be put into words? Complexities of speech and the place of other forms of communication in therapeutic work with refugees / Dorothy Daniell -- Loss of network support piled on trauma : thinking more broadly about the context of refugees / Tirril Harris -- Hearing the unhearable, speaking the unspeakable : original wounds, trauma, and the asylum seeker / Bernadette Hawkes -- How I became a psychoanalyst / Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg -- My experience of clinical work with refugees and asylum seekers / Aida Alayarian -- Boundary problems and compassion / Aida Alayarian -- Reflections on alternative organizational structures for charitable agencies / Josephine Klein
Summary "Resilience, Suffering, and Creativity" offers a particularly thoughtful overview of what is needed by those who have come finally to rest in some refuge. The specific issues in this kind of work are raised here - the role of words in treating trauma that comes from physical and bodily privation; the indicators by which we can pick those whose resilience can carry them through; the place of social network support (and its loss); the role of the therapeutic institution for people who have been institutionally persecuted; and so on. It is a far-reaching contribution to addressing these various i
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Refugee Therapy Centre.
SUBJECT Refugee Therapy Centre fast
Subject Refugees -- England -- London
Refugees -- Psychology
Displacement (Psychology)
Mental health services.
Refugees -- psychology
Mental Health Services
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic -- therapy
Displacement, Psychological
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Mental health services
Displacement (Psychology)
Refugees
Refugees -- Psychology
SUBJECT United Kingdom https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
Subject England -- London
Form Electronic book
Author Alayarian, Aida
ISBN 9781849405508
1849405506