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Treating Victims of Torture and Violence : Theoretical Cross-Cultural, and Clinical Implications.
Torture is among the most disturbing and psychologically devastating of human behaviors. It dehumanizes its victims, leaving them with serious and lasting psychological wounds. Like other psychological trauma, torture frequently leaves in its wake denial and silence among both perpetrators and their...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Torture, Violence, and Aggression: Scientific Difficulties in Containing the "Absolute Evil"; Definition of Torture and the Fight for Democracy; Concepts of Aggression and Violence; Aggression as Essentialism or Relativism; The Death Instinct: Thanatos; Torture's Three Partners; Neutralization and Repression; The Torturer and the Victim; Violencia and Bureaucratic Target Displacement; The "Freezing" of Violence: The Incarnation; The Conspiracy of Silence.
- 2 The Torture Syndrome: A Diagnostic Description of the Trauma-Provoked Condition and a Psychodynamic Understanding of the "Unbearable Helplessness"Trauma-Provoked Conditions: A Diagnostic Description; Stress as a Psychopathological-Provoking Factor; "The Torture Syndrome"; Destruction of the Personality and Avoidance of the Trauma; Psychodynamic Understanding; Realization of the Psychotic Universe; Ego-Armoring; Regression to the Psychotic Core; The Difference between the Torture Survivor and the Psychotic Patient: A Psychoanalytic Description; The Concept of Trauma in Psychoanalysis.
- The Core of the Trauma: The Unbearable HelplessnessThe Stimulus Barrier; Two Trauma Models: "Strain Trauma" and "Shock Trauma"; Cognitive Information Processing; Juxtaposition of the Psychoanalytic and Cognitive Trauma Models; 3 Psychotherapeutic Treatment: The Supportive Attitude and the Combination of Psychoanalytic and Cognitive Ways of Thinking; Working with the Symptoms: Cognitive Restriction and Affective Anesthesia; Working with the Transference: Traumatic Bonding; The Visitation; Development and Trauma: Conflict or Deficit Pathology; Explorative or Supportive Psychotherapy.
- Interplay between Supportive and Explorative TherapyPitfalls in Using Supportive Therapy; Neutrality and Engagement; Integrity Requires a Balance between Intellect and Feelings; The Stages of Therapy; Cognitive Treatment Methods and Pharmacotherapy; Combination of Cognitive and Psychodynamic Viewpoints; "The Meaning of Life": Reality or Self-Deception; 4 The Cultural Psychology of the Torture Syndrome: A Distinction between What Is Universal and What Is Culture-Bound; Meeting of Two Different Explanatory Models; Culture: A Position from Which We Talk.
- Astonishment as a Motivation for Working with What Is ForeignCulture-Bound Disease Entities; The Search for Absolute Disease Entities; Cultural Psychology: More Than Direct Translation; Anxiety and Depression; Learned Helplessness and the Meaning of Symptoms; Guilt and Shame Cultures; Aggression, Suicide, and Morals; The Public and the Private Room; Individual Cultural Expression; 5 Cultural-Psychological Treatment: Examples of Psychotherapy Showing Respect for Foreign Cultures; The Cultural-Psychological Method; Comparison of Non-Western and Western Treatment Practices.