Voices of Trauma Treating Psychological Trauma Across Cultures
Synthesizing insights from psychiatry, social psychology, and anthropology, Voices of Trauma: Treating Survivors across Cultures sets out a framework for therapy that is as culturally informed as it is productive. An international panel of 23 therapists o
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Voices of Trauma Treating Survivors Across Cultures
Edited by
Boris Drozˇdek and
John P. Wilson
Voices of Trauma: Treating Psychological Trauma Across Cultures
Voices of Trauma Treating Psychological Trauma Across Cultures
Edited by
Boris Drozˇd¯ek Psychotrauma Centrum Zuid Nederland/Reinier van Arkel groep ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
John P. Wilson Cleveland State University Ohio, USA
Corresponding Editor: Boris Drozˇd¯ek, MD, MA, Psychiatrist Reinier van Arkel groep Psychotrauma Centrum Zuid Nederland Bethaniestraat 10 Postbus 70058, 5211 LJ The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected]
ISBN-13: 978-0-387-69794-9
e-ISBN-13: 978-0-387-69797-0
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Foreword By Laurence J. Kirmayer
There is increasing recognition that culture profoundly shapes the experience of suffering and healing. Indeed, current guidelines for trauma intervention in international work recommend cultural adaptation, but the details of how to accomplish this remain unclear. In this volume, Boris Drozˇd¯ek and John P. Wilson have brought together an exceptional group of creative clinicians whose work illuminates the issues at stake in taking culture seriously. Intercultural work confronts us with many kinds of difference: the unique lifeworld of another person, the unusual experiences of psychiatric disorder, the distinctive history of the stranger from a distant place. Although people from diverse backgrounds may live in the same society, they also participate in distinct cultural communities, both local and transnational. How clinicians approach these differences reflects their clinical skills and orientation, but it also depends on larger social values and institutions that allow us to meet others in a place of safety and mutual respect. Listening empathetically builds bridges across the divides of experience and identity. Empathy brings us close to those who suffer and allows us to understand something of their predicament. But empathy has its limits, beyond which imagination falters, notably in the face of the extremities of torture and other forms of violence. Much writing in the field of trauma, including previous work by the editors of this volume, has explo
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