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• Title:[An der Seite der Uberlebenden, Unterstutzung, und Therapien. English.]
  At the side of torture survivors : treating a terrible assault on human dignity / edited by Sepp Graessner, Norbert Gurris, and Christian Pross ; translated by Jeremiah Michael Riemer.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Graessner, Sepp.
  Gurris, Norbert.
  Pross, Christian.
  
• Published/Created:Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
  

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  • Location:PARC (circulating) (Order via Document Delivery)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: RC451.4.T67 A5 2001
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM170 .A8213 2001
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:c.1 Missing - 06-11-2012
    c.1 Missing - 08-09-2013
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Torture victims--Rehabilitation.
  Torture victims--Mental health.
  Torture--Psychological aspects.
  Torture victims--Counseling of.
  Torture victims--Medical care.
  
• Medical Subjects: Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic--therapy.
  Psychotherapy--methods.
  Survivors.
  Torture--psychology.
  
• Description:xxv, 241 p. ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:"Available for the first time in English, At the Side of Torture Survivors provides an intimate portrait of the difficulties facing torture survivors and the therapists who strive to help them. Written by specialists at the Berlin Center for the Treatment of Torture Victims, the book covers topics ranging from physical rehabilitation to advocacy for those seeking asylum and justice. The authors describe traumatic aftereffects of torture, such as memory loss, nightmares, and psychosomatic disorders, and outline therapeutic treatments such as dream therapy and storytelling. Throughout, the authors document their work without hiding the limits and failures that often accompany it. They tell of the difficulty of diagnosing torture symptoms, discuss the problems impeding therapeutically effective contact with torture victims, and reflect on the burdens faced by therapists themselves."--Jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:0801866278 (alk. paper)
  9780801866272 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Foreword / Desmond Tutu
  Foreword / Bahman Nirumand
  Introduction to the English-Language Edition / Dori Laub
  Ch. 1. Foreign Bodies in the Soul / Ferdinand Haenel
  Ch. 2. Psychic Trauma through Torture
  Healing through Psychotherapy? / Norbert Gurris
  Ch. 3. The Vestige of Pain: Psychosomatic Disorders among Survivors of Torture / Mechthild Wenk-Ansohn
  Ch. 4. "In My Fingertips I Don't Have a Soul Anymore": Body Psychotherapy with Survivors of Torture
  Insights into Work with Concentrative Movement Therapy / Sylvia Karcher
  Ch. 5. The Frozen Lake: Gestalt Therapy Dreamwork with Torture Victims / Sibylle Rothkegel
  Ch. 6. The Healing Power of Storytelling / Salah Ahmad
  Ch. 7. "Every Perpetrator's Acquittal Costs Me Two Weeks' Sleep": How Societies and Individuals Cope with Trauma, as Illustrated by the German Democratic Republic / Christian Pross.