Treating Victims of Torture and Violence: Theoretical, Cross-Cultural, and Clinical Implications - Couverture rigide

Elsass, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0814722016 ISBN 13 : 9780814722015

Editeur : New York University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Torture is among the most disturbing and psychologically devastating of human behaviors. It dehumanizes its victims, leaving them with serious and lasting psychological wounds. Like other psychological trauma, torture frequently leaves in its wake denial and silence among both perpetrators and their victims. This communicative void creates a public and mental block that can make treatment of torture survivors very difficult.
Treating Victims of Torture and Violence is the definitive manual for therapists treating victims of torture, prisoners of war, and casualties of forced migration. Divided into five sections dealing with basic concepts of torture--violence and aggression, the torture syndrome, psychotherapeutic treatment, the cultural psychology of torture syndrome, and cultural psychological treatment-- Treating Victims of Torture and Violence employs both classic psychoanalytic and cognitive- behavioral methods. Realizing that torture victims are frequently from different cultures than those of their therapists, Peter Elsass provides in-depth aid to therapists dealing with a multicultural clientele.

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À propos de l'auteur

Peter Elsass is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Copenhagen and the author of Strategies for Survival: The Psychology of Cultural Resilience in Ethnic Minorities, also available from NYU Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814722016
• ISBN 13: 9780814722015
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 214
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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