Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Traumatized Refugees: Integration, Symbolization, and Mourning
Varvin, Sverre, American Journal of Psychotherapy
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Traumatized Refugees: Integration, Symbolization, and Mourning
SVERRE VARVIN, M.D.**
The psychotherapeutic encounter may be experienced as threatening for severely traumatized patients because of fear of re-experiencing and retraumatization. This puts a focus on how different aspects of the transference and psychotherapeutic situation address different aspects of the patient's pathology. The discussion uses clinical material from psychotherapies with traumatized refugees. Vignettes illuminate the problems.
By playing painfully with memories, we re-create life and rediscover the pleasure of being alive.1
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Publication information:
Article title: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Traumatized Refugees: Integration, Symbolization, and Mourning.
Contributors: Varvin, Sverre - Author.
Journal title: American Journal of Psychotherapy.
Volume: 52.
Issue: 1
Publication date: Winter 1998.
Page number: 64+.
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