Group Analysis for Refugees Experiencing Trauma

Author(s) : Aida Alayarian

Group Analysis for Refugees Experiencing Trauma

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : August 2023
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 178
  • Category :
    Group Psychotherapy
  • Category 2 :
    Trauma and Violence
  • Catalogue No : 97332
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032512402
  • ISBN 10 : 1032512407
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In this prescient and sensitive volume, Aida Alayarian looks at how psychoanalysis in group settings can benefit refugees who have experienced trauma, with an express focus on transference and countertransference.

Group Analysis for Refugees Experiencing Trauma offers a comprehensive overview of trauma from a psychoanalytic perspective, before delving into the nuance of trauma experienced by asylum seekers, refugees and those who have gone through forced migration. Through clinical vignettes, Alayarian highlights the importance of the resilience that can be brought about from group sessions and shared experience in helping to heal the wounds of trauma. She looks at the vital role of social injustice in this trauma and shows how this can be directly applied to work with other groups experiencing human rights violations, destitution, and loss. She shows how looking at relational patterns as a means of understanding conscious, unconscious, and subconscious thought processes can provide essential breakthroughs with patients, as well as the importance of paying close attention to countertransference to avoid a breakdown of the clinical relationship.

Using psychoanalytic theories from intercultural perspectives to show the multidimensional nature of work with trauma patients, this book is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health experts working with refugees and patients experiencing trauma.

Table of Contents


Introduction
1. Refugee Therapy Centre
2. Assessments
3. Trauma
4. Repression and Dissociation
5. Principle of Psychoanalysis
6. Important Psychoanalytic Ideas
7. Intercultural Approach
8. What is Group?
9. Creating Groups
10. Transference and Countertransference

About the Author(s)

Aida Alayarian is a consultant clinical psychologist, child psychotherapist since 1986, and adult psychoanalytic psychotherapist since 1998. She has a Masters in Medical Anthropology and Intercultural Psychotherapy, with a background in Medicine. She is the founder and currently Clinical Director of the Refugee Therapy Centre.

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