Ghosts in the nursery in exile—Supporting parenting in exile during the COVID‐19 pandemic

The early prevention project “Strong together!” supports refugee parents and their young children (0–4 years) in Berlin, Germany. It aims to mitigate the transmission of trauma generation born exile. For families who have only recently arrived Germany, COVID-19 pandemic poses a particularly great challenge. Not are they confronted with numerous challenges respect re-building lives Germany after fleeing war persecution, but also vulnerable conscious unconscious anxieties, fantasies, conflicts evoked by threat it lives. This was observed context mother–child groups together!”. Many expressed insecurity, heightened levels anxiety, re-experiencing traumatic scenes, over-strictly self-isolating themselves children, even attraction fundamentalist ideologies. In this paper, some empirical clinical findings summarized reflected on within framework psychoanalytic theory.