Trauma, Flight and Migration

Vivienne Elton, MBBS, DPM, FRANZCP, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, past president and current training analyst of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society, and chair of the IPA in the Humanitarian Field Committee. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, MD, Dr. phil., is former professor for psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel and director of the Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt a.M. She is currently senior professor at the University Medicine Mainz, training analyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV/IPA), vice chair of the Research Board of the IPA (2010–2021), and member and former chair of the IPA Subcommittee for Migration and Refugees. Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp, Dr. phil., is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, training analyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV, IPA), and chair of the IPA Subcommittee for Migration and Refugees. Vivian B. Pender, MD, is clinical professor of psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, and training psychoanalyst at Columbia University. She has chaired the UN Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association since 2009.

Editorial introduction, PART A: Psychoanalytical projects “off the couch”, 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. Psicólogos Contigo: 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, PART B: Psychoanalysis and the UN, 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