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A House Next Door to Trauma

A House Next Door to Trauma

Learning from Holocaust Survivors How to Respond to Atrocity

Judith Hassan

Paperback: £25.00 / $39.95

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

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Acknowledgements. Preface: The `Other World' of the Survivor's Suffering. Part I: Facing the Dark Shadow. Introduction. 1. Opening the Door to the World of Extreme Trauma. 2. Personal Preparation to Confront the Dark Shadow. 3. The Complexity of Trauma. Part II: Learning from Survivors How to Respond to Atrocity. Introduction. 4. Working with the Effects of Extreme Trauma. 5. Rethinking our Therapeutic Approaches. Part III: A Therapeutic Model for Working with the Aftermath of Atrocity. Introduction. 6. Encounters with Survivors. 7. Translating Trauma into a Meaningful Therapeutic Language. 8. Building a Meaningful Therapeutic Service with those who have Undergone Severe Trauma. 9. Developing Services with Holocaust Survivors. Part IV: Integrating Trauma. Introduction. 10. Connecting Two Worlds. 11. Exploring the Usefulness of the Therapeutic Services in the Lives of Survivors. Part V: A House Next Door to Trauma - Particular and Universal Dimensions. Introduction. 12. Like a Mother with her Second Child: Work with Recent Refugees from War Trauma. 13. Developing Coordinated Therapeutic Responses to War Trauma. 14. Closing the Final Page. References. Index.