Bearing Witness - Psychoanalytic Work With People Traumatised By Torture State

About the author

Andres Gautier (Bolivia) Ph.D. is an adolescents and adult psychotherapist. He has worked for many years in Switzerland as psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice and penitentiary institutions. He is coordinator of the working group of the EFPP on "Trauma and State Violence". In 2001 he founded, together with Emma Bolshia Bravo, the Institute for Therapy and Research on the Sequels of Torture and State Violence (ITEI) in La Paz, Bolivia.Anna Sabatini Scalmati (Italy) is a psychoanalytical psychotherapist, training and supervising member of the Italian Association of Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy for Children (AIPPI) and member of the Italian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Adults (SIPP) She lives and works in Rome and is author of several articles.

Summary

This book discusses the kind of mental processing that can free victims from their unspeakable trauma, a trauma that has no framework in time or words with which to express it. It discusses the traumatic scenes that are extreme expressions of historic and political conditions.

Product details

• Authors: Andres Scalmati Gautier
• Assisted by: Andres Gautier (Editor), Andrés Gautier (Editor), Gautier Andres (Editor), Anna Sabatini Scalmati (Editor), Anna Sabatini Scalmati (Editor), Scalmati Anna Sabatini (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367323424
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32342-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: The EFPP Monograph Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Trauma and Violence