Main description:

The trauma of refugee status is particularly corrosive. It does the usual harm of devastating our own self-image and sense of permanence in the world, but it does more. It is a dislocation from our familiar domestic geography and culture, and that must wrench from our grasp all the external markers by which we know ourselves and our worth. The thre

Contents:

Foreword -- Introduction -- Trauma, resilience, and creativity -- Resilience: a case illustration -- Memory for trauma -- The therapeutic needs of those fleeing persecution and violence, now and in the future -- Does it matter how much can be put into words? -- Loss of network support piled on trauma: thinking more broadly about the context of refugees -- Hearing the unhearable, speaking the unspeakable: original wounds, trauma, and the asylum seeker -- How I became a psychoanalyst -- My experience of clinical work with refugees and asylum seekers -- Boundary problems and compassion -- Reflections on alternative organizational structures for charitable agencies