Voices of Trauma: Treating Psychological Trauma Across Cultures

FOREWORD Laurence J. Kirmayer PREFACE Boris Drozdek THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL CONSIDERATIONS Chapter 1 : Boris Drozdek 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 Drozdek 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 Drozdek Are we lost in translations?: Unanswered questions on trauma, culture and post- traumatic syndromes and recommendations for future research