Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial, and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance

Editor : Maria Giovanna Bianchi, Editor : Monica Luci

Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial, and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2023
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 258
  • Category :
    Psychotherapy and Politics
  • Catalogue No : 97501
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032320571
  • ISBN 10 : 1032320575

Table of Contents


Part 1: Enforced Disappearance in the Contemporary World
1. Enforced disappearances in the contemporary world: The recent contributions of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
Bernard Duhaime

2. The curse of ambiguity: The traumatic memory of victims of enforced disappearance
Angkhana Neelapaijit

3. Mourning the disappeared: A personal account
Andrea Paula Bleichmar

Part 2: Enforced Disappearance and Human Rights
4. The law in front of the denial of the law
Emmanuel Decaux

5. The psychological impact of enforced disappearance on victims in light of international human rights law
Santiago Corcuera Cabezut

6. The value and need for incorporating a psychosocial approach to forensic case-work in cases of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, including those who do not survive enforced and involuntary disappearances.
Morris Tidball-Binz

7. Fifty shades of suffering? The wavering international jurisprudence on relatives of disappeared persons as victims of human rights violations
Gabriella Citroni

8. The fight against impunity for enforced disappearances: A historical and personal account
Baltasar Garzón

Part 3: Enforced Disappearance in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytical Perspectives
9. Memories of enforced disappearance: Psychological need and political aim
Maria Giovanna Bianchi

10. Tortured and disappeared bodies: The problem of ‘knowing’
Monica Luci

11. Enforced disappearances and its perpetrators: The psychosis of total loss
Richard Mizen

12. "Can you describe this?": United Nations officers and the families of the disappeared
Ghislaine Boulanger

13. Traumatic traces of enforced disappearance through generations: From psychoanalytic theory to a family case study
Manon Bourguignon, Muriel Katz, and Alice Dermitzel

14. Names without bodies and bodies without names: Ambiguous loss and closure after enforced disappearance
Pauline Boss and Simon Robins

15. An Art Work for the "Jardin des Disparus" – in Meyrin, Switzerland
Anne Blanchet

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