A Psychoanalytic Approach to Refugee Mental Health

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Refugee Mental Health reflects on psychoanalytic work with vulnerable people during the refugee crisis.

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Refugee Mental Health reflects on psychoanalytic work with vulnerable people during the refugee crisis.

Chrysi Giannoulaki describes her work as a supervisor of groups of caregivers dealing with the mental health of refugees and occasionally as a psychiatrist of refugees in Moria, Lesvos, and in Athens. The book explores work with complex refugee cases that involve major economic, political, and social issues, with victims of sexual violence, and with unaccompanied minors. Exploring the potential of psychoanalytic theory of trauma and psychosis, clinical psychoanalytic thinking to foster integration, and tolerance of the extremely traumatized individual within networks of social relations, the book acts protectively against moments of xenophobia and polarization.

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Refugee Mental Health will be essential reading for psychoanalytically informed mental health professionals, especially those working with refugees, asylum seekers, and vulnerable patients.

Autorentext

Chrysi Giannoulaki is a psychiatrist and a training analyst of the Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society. She is a full member of the Psychiatry and Art Section of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association, whose actions aim to enhance awareness of racism and xenophobia. Chrysi has been working with refugees since 2016.

Klappentext

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Refugee Mental Health reflects on psychoanalytic work with vulnerable people during the refugee crisis.

Inhalt

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1

Language and Silence

Chapter 2

Dream and Daydreaming

Chapter 3

Male Friendship and Homosexuality

Chapter 4

Violence and Women

Chapter 5

Identity and Mourning

Chapter 6

Forms of Repetition

Chapter 7

"Difficult" Refugees and Sex-Work

Chapter 8

Mourning and Nostalgia

Chapter 9

Psychosis and Violence

Chapter 10

Understanding and Explaining Ruptures and Reconstruction

Chapter 11

Counter-Transference and Xenos

Chapter 12

Intergenerational Transmission: Memory and Oblivion

Conclusion