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Author Ahlberg, Nora, 1952-

Title No five fingers are alike : what exiled Kurdish women in therapy told me / Nora Ahlberg
Published London : Karnac Books, 2007, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (348, [1] pages)
Series International series of psychosocial perspectives on trauma, displaced people, and political violence
International series of psychosocial perspectives on trauma, displaced people, and political violence.
Contents COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Series editor's foreword; About the author; Author's foreword to the present edition; Introduction Towards Interdisciplinary Theory and Understanding; Part one: A Cultural Study of Clinical Context; 1. THE INTERDISCIPLINARY CHALLENGE; 2. PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA RECONSIDERED; 3. THE TORTURE VERSUS EXILE TRAUMA; 4. VIOLATION OF GENDER; 5. VIOLATIONS OFINTERGENERATIONAL OBLIGATIONS; 6. CLIENTIFICATION AS A RE-ACTUALISED TRAUMA; 7. THE COLLECTIVE DIMENSIONS OF TRAUMA; Violation of Ritual and Ritual Emotion; Large-Scale Loss and Multiple Disaster:The Kurdish Case
Summary This is probably the only book of it kind that focuses exclusively on refugee women, and one of the few that limit their scope only to one group of refugees - the Kurds, in this case. Although the book is about Kurdish women in Norway, its appeal and contents are nevertheless of universal value and applicability. The general reader will get an unparalleled insight into a therapeutic way of working with refugees and the specialist reader will have a vast range of themes to feast on. These include theoretical considerations of ideas about collective trauma, narrative life stories, working cross-
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-349)
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Subject Women refugees -- Mental health -- Norway
Women refugees -- Norway -- Interviews
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Refugees, Kurdish -- Norway
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Refugees, Kurdish
Women refugees
Women refugees -- Mental health
Kurdischer Flüchtling
Weiblicher Flüchtling
Psychisches Trauma
Posttraumatisches Stresssyndrom
Psychotherapie
Norway
Norwegen
Genre/Form Interviews
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781849405492
1849405492
9781780494470
1780494475