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At the side of torture survivors : treating a terrible assault on human dignity / edited by Sepp Graessner, Norbert Gurris, and Christian Pross ; translated by Jeremiah Michael Riemer.

Other author/creatorGraessner, Sepp.
Other author/creatorGurris, Norbert.
Other author/creatorPross, Christian.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBaltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press,
Descriptionxxv, 241 p. ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subject(s)
Uniform titleAn der Seite der Uberlebenden, Unterstutzung, und Therapien. English
Contents Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER ONE -- Foreign Bodies in the Soul I -- Ferdinand Haenel -- CHAPTER TWO -- Psychic Trauma through Torture-Healing through Psychotherapy? 29 -- Norbert Gurris -- CHAPTER THREE -- The Vestige of Pain: -- Psychosomatic Disorders among Survivors of Torture 57 -- Mechthild Wenk-Ansohn -- CHAPTER FOUR -- "In My Fingertips I Don't Have a Soul Anymore": -- Body Psychotherapy with Survivors of Torture-Insights into -- Work with Concentrative Movement Therapy 70 -- Sylvia Karcher -- CHAPTER FIVE -- The Frozen Lake: -- Gestalt Therapy Dreamwork with Torture Victims 95 -- Sibylle Rothkegel -- CHAPTER SIX -- The Healing Power of Storytelling 112 -- SalahAhmad -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- "Every Perpetrator's Acquittal Costs Me Two Weeks' Sleep": -- How Societies and Individuals Cope with Trauma, -- as Illustrated by the German Democratic Republic i26 -- Christian Pross -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- There, Where Words Fail, Tears Are the Bridge: -- Thoughts on Speechlessness in Working with -- Survivors of Torture 142 -- Britta enkins -- CHAPTER NINE -- Two Hundred Blows to the Head: -- Possibilities and Limits in Evaluating the Physical Aftereffects -- of Torture I53 -- Sepp Graessner -- CHAPTER TEN -- "Like a Drop of Water": Everyday Life for Asylum Seekers -- and Social Work with Survivors of Torture I69 -- Frank Merkord -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- Everything Forgotten! -- Memory Disorders among Refugees Who -- Have Been Tortured I84 -- Sepp Graessner, SalahAhmad, and Frank Merkord -- CHAPTER TWELVE -- What Does This Work Do to Us? I98 -- Johan Lansen -- AFTERWORD -- Legal Status, Living Conditions, and Health Care for Political -- Refugees in Germany 212 -- Christian Pross.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 00048160
ISBN0801866278 (alk. paper)

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