A House Next Door to Trauma

A House Next Door to Trauma

Learning from Holocaust Survivors How to Respond to Atrocity

Judith Hassan

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2003, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 320pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-867-0, BIC 2: MMJT JKSN2 MMKB

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Drawing on her long-standing experience as a manager of services for refugees and survivors, Judith Hassan presents a practical guide to working with people who have lived through war trauma. She explores the particular challenges caring professionals face in supporting this group, and develops a working model that takes into account the therapist's own response to the trauma and how this impacts on the therapeutic relationship. Specific issues covered include

  • issues of loss, grief and mourning in relation to trauma
  • the role of the social, political and cultural context of the trauma
  • the effect of a person's age (at the time of the trauma and the present time)
  • the transmission of trauma to the next generation
  • mutual support groups as a therapeutic medium
  • listening to survivors' stories.

Using her work with survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and with refugees from Bosnia, and drawing on the experiences of Rwanda and Kosovo, she provides a lucid and ultimately hopeful guide to the positive potential of therapeutic work in this area.