InhaltsangabeFOREWORD Laurence J. Kirmayer



PREFACE Boris Drozdek



THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL CONSIDERATIONS



Chapter 1: Boris Drozdek

The rebirth of contextual thinking in psychotraumatology



Chapter 2: Michael Harris Bond

Culture and collective violence: how good people, usually men, do bad things



CASE ILLUSTRATIONS OF INTERCULTURAL WORK WITH VICTIMS OF TRAUMA



Chapter 3: Robert Jay Lifton

Destroying the world to save it



Chapter 4: John P. Wilson

Reversing cultures: the wounded teaching the healers



Chapter 5: Jaswant Guzder

Fourteen djinns migrate across the ocean



Chapter 6: Catherine So-kum Tang

Culturally relevant meanings and their implications on therapy for traumatic

grief: lessons learned from a Chinese female client and her fortune-teller



Chapter 7: Boris Drozdek

The story of Alex, an Armenian man who encounters the evil every day



Chapter 8: Edvard Hauff

Loss, reconnection and reconstruction: a former child soldier's returning to

Cambodia



Chapter 9: Marian Tankink & Annemiek Richters

Giving voice to silence: silence as coping strategy of refugee women from

South Sudan who experienced sexual violence in the context of war



Chapter 10: Gesine Sturm, Thierry Baubet & Marie Rose Moro

Mobilizing social and symbolic resources in transcultural therapies with

refugees and asylum seekers: the story of Mister Diallo



Chapter 11: Nino Makhashvili & Lela Tsiskarishvili

Lost in the desert - from despair to meaningful existence: A Chechen family

crossing borders



Chapter 12: Cecile Rousseau & Deogratias Bagilishya

Survival as subversion: when youth resistance strategies challenge tradition,

religion, and political correctness





Chapter 13: Elizabeth Batista Pinto Wiese

I think he is still inside me: mother/child psychotherapy with a Kosovar family



Chapter 14: Robin Bowles & Nooria Mehrabi

Lost in limbo: cultural dimensions in psychotherapy and supervision with a

Temporary Protection visa holder from Afghanistan



Chapter 15: David C. Lindy, Rebecca Morales & Jacob D. Lindy

Latino New Yorkers and the crash of flight 587: effects of trauma on the

bicultural self



Chapter 16: Ton Haans, Johan Lansen & Han Ten Brummelhuis

Clinical supervision and culture: a challenge in the treatment of persons

traumatized by persecution and violence



ISSUES FOR FUTURE RESEARCH AND CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS



Chapter 17: John P. Wilson & Boris Drozdek

Are we lost in translations?: Unanswered questions on trauma, culture and post-

traumatic syndromes and recommendations for future research