Trauma Flight and Migration

<p>This book brings together leading international psychoanalysts to discuss what psychoanalysis can offer to people who have experienced trauma, flight, and migration.</p><p>The four parts of the book cover several elements of this work, including psychoanalytic projects beyond the couch, and collaboration with the UN. Each chapter presents an example of the applications of psychoanalysis with a specific group or in a particular context, from working with refugees in China to understanding the experiences of women who have witnessed political violence in Peru. Psychoanalytic work with <em>Trauma, Flight and Migration</em> provides a compelling exploration of the international contributions made by psychoanalysis.</p><p>This innovative book will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists looking to learn more about working with people who have experienced the impact of traumatic movement or migration.</p> <p>Editorial introduction, <b>PART A: Psychoanalytical projects “off the couch”, </b>1. What has clinical psychoanalysis to offer to traumatised refugees? Some experiences during the so-called “refugee crisis” in Hesse (Germany): Part I: the STEP-BY-STEP project, Part II: psychoanalytic treatments of refugees in Kassel, 2. A quite “normal” treatment with a refugee in the form of the International Clinic as part of the training outpatient clinic at the Frankfurt Psychoanalytic Institute, 3. Forced to flee: the experience of Peruvian women in times of political violence, 4. Perinatal migration: lived experience and intergenerational transmission, 5. <i>Psicólogos Contigo</i>: working with displaced inhabitants because of a natural disaster, 6. From a trench in the war against children, 7. Suffering from elsewhere: trauma and its transmission, 8. Psychoanalysis and the drama of refugees in Italy, 9. Mourning and issues of identity in the treatment of refugees in Lesvos, 10. Is psychoanalysis of any help for refugees?, 11. Schizoid mechanisms in posttraumatic states, 12. Long-term psychoanalytic treatments with traumatised refugees, 13. Fifteen years of psychoanalytical fieldwork in Eastern African cities, 14. The return of the oppressed, the birth of the other, and collective Western guilt, 15. Trauma, refugees, and ethnopsychoanalytical experiences, <b>PART B: Psychoanalysis and the UN, </b>16. Advocating Psychoanalysis at the UN, 17. The psychoanalyst, psychoanalysis, and human rights: a perspective that instigates us, 18. The right to stay in place</p>