1st Edition

Group Analysis for Refugees Experiencing Trauma

By Aida Alayarian Copyright 2024
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

Aida Alayarian is a psychoanalyst working in the UK. She is the co-founder, former Clinical Director and CEO and current chair of Trustees of the Refugee Therapy Centre, a charity in North London. She is the author of Resilience, Suffering and Creativity (2007), Consequences of Denial: The Armenian Genocide (2008), Trauma, Torture and Dissociation: A Psychoanalytic View (2011), Handbook of Working with Children, Trauma, and Resilience: An Intercultural Psychoanalytic View (2015) and Children of Refugees: Torture, Human Rights, and Psychological Consequences (2016).