At the side of torture survivors : treating a terrible assault on human dignity /
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| Uniform title: | An der Seite der Uberlebenden, Unterstutzung, und Therapien. English. |
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| Imprint: | Baltimore [Md.] : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. |
| Description: | xxv, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4465900 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Introduction to the English-Language Edition
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Foreign Bodies in the Soul
- Chapter 2. Psychic Trauma through Torture--Healing through Psychotherapy?
- Chapter 3. The Vestige of Pain: Psychosomatic Disorders among Survivors of Torture
- Chapter 4. "In My Fingertips I Don't Have a Soul Anymore": Body Psychotherapy with Surivors of Torture--Insights into Work with Concentrative Movement Therapy
- Chapter 5. The Frozen Lake: Gestalt Therapy Dreamwork with Torture Victims
- Chapter 6. The Healing Power of Storytelling
- Chapter 7. "Every Perpetrator's Acquittal Costs Me Two Weeks' Sleep": How Societies and Individuals Cope with Trauma, as Illustrated by the German Democratic Republic
- Chapter 8. There, Where Words Fail, Tears Are the Bridge: Thoughts on Speechlessness in Working with Survivors of Torture
- Chapter 9. Two Hundred Blows to the Head: Possibilities and Limits in Evaluating the Physical Aftereffects of Torture
- Chapter 10. "Like a Drop of Water": Everyday Life for Asylum Seekers and Social Work with Survivors of Torture
- Chapter 11. Everything Forgotten! Memory Disorders among Refugees Who Have Been Tortured
- Chapter 12. What Does This Work Do to Us?
- Afterword: Legal Status, Living Conditions, and Health Care for Political Refugees in Germany
- Appendix. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Contributors
