Resilience, suffering, and creativity : the work of the Refugee Therapy Centre / edited by Aida Alayarian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Trauma, resilience, and creativity / Aida Alayarian -- Resilience : a case illustration / Aida Alayarian -- Memory for trauma / Stuart Turner -- The therapeutic needs of those fleeing persecution and violence, now and in the future / Lennox K. Thomas -- Does it matter how much can be put into words? Complexities of speech and the place of other forms of communication in therapeutic work with refugees / Dorothy Daniell -- Loss of network support piled on trauma : thinking more broadly about the context of refugees / Tirril Harris -- Hearing the unhearable, speaking the unspeakable : original wounds, trauma, and the asylum seeker / Bernadette Hawkes -- How I became a psychoanalyst / Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg -- My experience of clinical work with refugees and asylum seekers / Aida Alayarian -- Boundary problems and compassion / Aida Alayarian -- Reflections on alternative organizational structures for charitable agencies / Josephine Klein.

"Resilience, Suffering, and Creativity" offers a particularly thoughtful overview of what is needed by those who have come finally to rest in some refuge. The specific issues in this kind of work are raised here - the role of words in treating trauma that comes from physical and bodily privation; the indicators by which we can pick those whose resilience can carry them through; the place of social network support (and its loss); the role of the therapeutic institution for people who have been institutionally persecuted; and so on. It is a far-reaching contribution to addressing these various i

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