Voices of Trauma (eBook)

Boris Droždek, M.D., M.A., is psychiatrist at Psychotrauma Centrum Zuid Nederland/Reinier van Arkel groep, ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, an international centre for treatment of victims of political and war violence. He is leading the residency training in social psychiatry, collaborating with different NGO’s in post-war areas, teaching and giving trainings in psychotraumatology and transcultural psychiatry on a regular basis in the Netherlands and abroad. He is international director of the International Summer School of Psychotrauma in Dubrovnik, Croatia. He is author of several scientific publications and chapters to books and, together with John P. Wilson, editor of the Broken Spirits: The Treatment of Traumatized Asylum Seekers, Refugees, War and Torture Victims (New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2004). John P. Wilson, Ph.D., is currently Professor of Psychology at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.. He is a founding member and Past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) and a Fellow of the American Institute of Stress. He is a Diplomate and Fellow of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, a Fulbright Scholar and the International Director of the International Summer School of Psychotrauma in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Dr. Wilson is the author of ten books and over 30 monographs and chapters on traumatic stress syndromes. Research and clinical work developed by Dr. Wilson have led to consultations with different national and international agencies like the U.S. Army and Navy, Department of Veterans Affairs, The White House and The World Health Organization, where he developed mental health programs during the war in Bosnia in 1994/ 1995., and more recently in Croatia to aid victims of war trauma.

FOREWORD Laurence J. Kirmayer PREFACE Boris Droždek THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL CONSIDERATIONS Chapter 1 : Boris Droždek The rebirth of contextual thinking in psychotraumatology Chapter 2 : Michael Harris Bond Culture and collective violence: how good people, usually men, do bad things CASE ILLUSTRATIONS OF INTERCULTURAL WORK WITH VICTIMS OF TRAUMA Chapter 3 : Robert Jay Lifton Destroying the world to save it Chapter 4 : John P. Wilson Reversing cultures: the wounded teaching the healers Chapter 5 : Jaswant Guzder Fourteen djinns migrate across the ocean Chapter 6 : Catherine So-kum Tang Culturally relevant meanings and their implications on therapy for traumatic grief: lessons learned from a Chinese female client and her fortune-teller Chapter 7 : Boris Droždek The story of Alex, an Armenian man who encounters the evil every day Chapter 8 : Edvard Hauff Loss, reconnection and reconstruction: a former child soldier’s returning to Cambodia Chapter 9 : Marian Tankink & Annemiek Richters Giving voice to silence: silence as coping strategy of refugee women from South Sudan who experienced sexual violence in the context of war Chapter 10 : Gesine Sturm, Thierry Baubet & Marie Rose Moro Mobilizing social and symbolic resources in transcultural therapies with refugees and asylum seekers: the story of Mister Diallo Chapter 11 : Nino Makhashvili & Lela Tsiskarishvili Lost in the desert - from despair to meaningful existence: A Chechen family crossing borders Chapter 12 : Cecile Rousseau & Deogratias Bagilishya Survival as subversion: when youthresistance strategies challenge tradition, religion, and political correctness Chapter 13 : Elizabeth Batista Pinto Wiese I think he is still inside me: mother/child psychotherapy with a Kosovar family Chapter 14 : Robin Bowles & Nooria Mehrabi Lost in limbo: cultural dimensions in psychotherapy and supervision with a Temporary Protection visa holder from Afghanistan Chapter 15 : David C. Lindy, Rebecca Morales & Jacob D. Lindy Latino New Yorkers and the crash of flight 587: effects of trauma on the bicultural self Chapter 16 : Ton Haans, Johan Lansen & Han Ten Brummelhuis Clinical supervision and culture: a challenge in the treatment of persons traumatized by persecution and violence ISSUES FOR FUTURE RESEARCH AND CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS Chapter 17 : John P. Wilson & Boris Droždek Are we lost in translations?: Unanswered questions on trauma, culture and post- traumatic syndromes and recommendations for future research