A Psychoanalytic Approach to Refugee Mental Health: Safe Harbor
English | 2026 | ISBN: 104107137X | 165 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
English | 2026 | ISBN: 104107137X | 165 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
Chrysi Giannoulaki describes her work as a supervisor of groups of caregivers dealing with the mental health of refugees and occasionally as a psychiatrist of refugees in Moria, Lesvos, and in Athens. The book explores work with complex refugee cases that involve major economic, political, and social issues, with victims of sexual violence, and with unaccompanied minors. Exploring the potential of psychoanalytic theory of trauma and psychosis, clinical psychoanalytic thinking to foster integration, and tolerance of the extremely traumatized individual within networks of social relations, the book acts protectively against moments of xenophobia and polarization.