Group Analysis for Refugees Experiencing Trauma

In this prescient and sensitive volume, Aida Alayarian looks at how psychoanalysis in group settings can benefit refugees who have experienced trauma, with an express focus on transference and countertransference.

Autorentext

Aida Alayarian is a psychoanalyst working in the UK. She is the co-founder, former Clinical Director and CEO and current chair of Trustees of the Refugee Therapy Centre, a charity in North London. She is the author of Resilience, Suffering and Creativity (2007), Consequences of Denial: The Armenian Genocide (2008), Trauma, Torture and Dissociation: A Psychoanalytic View (2011), Handbook of Working with Children, Trauma, and Resilience: An Intercultural Psychoanalytic View (2015) and Children of Refugees: Torture, Human Rights, and Psychological Consequences (2016).

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Refugee Therapy Centre 2. Assessments 3. Trauma 4. Repression and Dissociation 5. Principle of Psychoanalysis 6. Important Psychoanalytic Ideas 7. Intercultural Approach 8. What is Group? 9. Creating Groups 10. Transference and Countertransference