Transcultural Psychotherapy Research Articles

Traume, møde og mening

Agger, I. & Jensen, S.B. (1989). Trauma, meeting and meaning—significant concepts in transcultural psychotherapy for political refugees. Nordisk Psykologi, 41, 177–192. Organized violence poses Western clinicians with fundamental questions concerning the problem of meaning. The number of political refugees in Western countries, although relatively few on a world-wide scale, have forced clinicians to confront one of the manifestations of organized violence: The trauma of torture. In torture, feelings of panic anxiety and deep shame are elicited in the victim, who thus privatizes an act which in its origin is social and political. Symptoms following this trauma can, although with reservations, be understood in the context of Traumatic Stress Theory and treated in accordance with principles in Post-Traumatic Therapy (PTT). In the meeting between the Western clinician and the political refugee many clinicians have explained their personal counter- transference reactions to the horror of torture, and the socia...

Abstracts and Reviews : Transcultural Psychotherapy: Anglo Therapists and Mexican Patients by Michael Kearney and David Richman. Typescript 18 pp

Abstracts and Reviews : Transcultural Psychotherapy: Anglo Therapists and Mexican Patients by Michael Kearney and David Richman. Typescript 18 pp