Voices of trauma : treating psychological trauma across cultures / edited by Boris Drŏzđek, John P. Wilson.

Subtitle on cover: Treating survivors across cultures

New York : Springer, [2007], ©2007.

xxii, 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The rebirth of contextual thinking in psychotraumatology / Boris Drožđek -- Culture and collective violence : how good people, usually men, do bad things / Michael Harris Bond -- Destroying the world to save it / Robert Jay Lifton -- Reversing cultures : the wounded teaching the healers / John P. Wilson -- Fourteen djinns migrate across the ocean / Jaswant Guzder -- Culturally relevant meanings and their implications on therapy for traumatic grief : lessons learned from a Chinese female client and her fortune-teller / Catherine So-kum Tang -- The story of Alex, an Armenian man who encounters the evil every day / Boris Drožđek -- Loss, reconnection and reconstruction : a former child soldier's returning to Cambodia / Edvard Hauff -- Giving voice to silence : silence as coping strategy of refugee women from South Sudan who experienced sexual violence in the context of war / Marian Tankink & Annemiek Richters -- Mobilizing social and symbolic resources in transcultural therapies with refugees and asylum seekers : the story of Mister Diallo / Gesine Sturm, Thierry Baubet & Marie Rose Moro -- Lost in the desert--from despair to meaningful existence : a Chechen family crossing borders / Nino Makhashvili & Lela Tsiskarishvili -- Survival as subversion : when youth resistance strategies challenge tradition, religion, and political correctness / Cécile Rousseau & Déogratias Bagilishya -- I think he is still inside me : mother/child psychotherapy with a Kosovar family / Elizabeth Batista Pinto Wiese -- Lost in limbo : cultural dimensions in psychotherapy and supervision with a temporary protection visa holder from Afghanistan / Robin Bowles & Nooria Mehrabi -- Latino New Yorkers and the crash of Flight 587 : effects of trauma on the bicultural self / David C. Lindy, Rebecca Morales & Jacob D. Lindy -- Clinical supervision and culture : a challenge in the treatment of persons traumatized by persecution and violence / Ton Haans, Johan Lansen & Han ten Brummelhuis -- Are we lost in translations? : unanswered questions on trauma, culture and post-traumatic syndromes and recommendations for future research / John P. Wilson & Boris Drožđek.