PSYCHODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVES ON ASYL - Encountering Well-Founded Fear

List of contents

Introduction Chapter One: The nature of psychosocial asylum evaluations: Implications for client and clinician Chapter Two: Heroic Asylum seekers from around the world Chapter Three: Female Genital Mutilation and the wish for "life": Cultural considerations in the development of personal agency Chapter Four: Central American Women on the Run: Feminicide and its history; Afterword; Appendix I: Asylum Law in Brief Appendix II: Imprisoning Asylum Seekers Appendix III: Outline: Prospective Affidavit of A Mental Health Professional in Support of An Asylum Seeker Appendix IV: Female Genital Mutilation: Facts and Figures Appendix V: Background information: My Clients/ Other Women with FGM

About the author

Barbara Eisold has worked as an evaluator of asylum seekers in collaboration with a number of organizations, including Health Rights International, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and The Cardozo School of Law, where she is an associate faculty member. She is also a faculty member of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and maintains a private psychotherapy practice in New York City.

Summary

Psychodynamic Perspectives on Asylum Seekers and the Asylum-Seeking Process looks at the psychosocial assessment of asylum seekers from three perspectives: forensic, psychodynamic, and political and then attempts to better understand, from a psycho-dynamic perspective, differences in the historical/motivational routes of asylum seekers

Product details

• Authors: Barbara K. Eisold, Barbara K. (Cardozo School of Law Eisold
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2019
• EAN: 9781138354418
• ISBN: 978-1-138-35441-8
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis