Group Analysis for Refugees Experiencing Trauma

Aida Alayarian's Group Analysis for Refugees Experiencing Trauma offers a comprehensive overview of trauma from a psychoanalytic perspective, highlighting the resilience that can be brought about from group sessions and shared experience. It also explores the role of social injustice in trauma and how relational patterns can provide essential breakthroughs. The book is essential reading for mental health experts working with refugees and patients experiencing trauma.

Format: Hardback
Length: 6 pages
Publication date: 09 August 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

In this insightful and empathetic volume, Aida Alayarian explores the profound benefits of psychoanalysis in group settings for refugees who have endured trauma, with a specific emphasis on transference and countertransference. Group Analysis for Refugees Experiencing Trauma provides a comprehensive exploration of trauma from a psychoanalytic lens, delving into the intricate nuances experienced by asylum seekers, refugees, and individuals who have undergone forced migration. Through clinical vignettes, Alayarian underscores the resilience that can be fostered through group sessions and shared experiences in aiding the healing of trauma wounds. She examines the crucial role of social injustice in this trauma and demonstrates how it can be directly applied to work with other groups facing human rights violations, destitution, and loss. Alayarian also highlights the significance of examining relational patterns as a means of understanding conscious, unconscious, and subconscious thought processes, offering valuable insights for patients and mental health professionals alike. By employing psychoanalytic theories from intercultural perspectives, this book serves as a vital resource for psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health experts engaged in the treatment of refugees and trauma patients.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032512433