Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Traumatized Refugees: Integration, Symbolization, and Mourning

Child psychoanalytic psychotherapy

development as well as free play being a focus of interpretation. concepts of transference, countertransference, working alliance and negative therapeutic reaction. Since Freud, multiple psychoanalytic paradigms have developed, including Kleinian psychology and self-psychology. While Freud emphasised an energy discharge point of view within a natural science framework, more recent work has also...

Moral Injury in Traumatized Refugees.

Treatment of traumatized refugees with Sertraline versus Venlafaxine in combination with psychotherapy – study protocol for a randomized clinical trial

BACKGROUND Sufficient evidence is lacking to draw final conclusions on the efficiency of medical and psychological treatments of traumatized refugees with PTSD. The pharmacological treatments of choice today for post-traumatic stress disorder are antidepressants from the subgroup selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, especially sertraline. The evidence for the use of selective serotonin reup...

Music Therapy with Traumatized Refugees in a Clinical Setting

In the past 20 years music therapy has been used extensively for trauma treatment. Most of the described methods of music therapy in trauma treatment deal with war veterans and victims of maltreatment or sexual abuse (Austin, 2002; Bonny, 1986). Music therapists connected to War Child, an organization working with children in war zones or in post-war environments, describe their experiences wit...

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy with migrant war victims: transference and countertransference issues.

This report raises questions about the relevance of the psychoanalytic theory and method with migrant war victims, and addresses the issue of personal limits of the psychotherapist who treats these often very ill patients. A clinical vignette and its psychoanalytic understanding introduce the question of transference and counter- transference in the therapeutic work with traumatized war victims...