ABSTRACT
Escaping violence and persecution in a country where the rule of law has broken down, and rape and torture are part of everyday life, is trauma enough for a 17-year-old woman, but when she eventually reaches a place of safety and finds that her story is not believed and her asylum claim is refused, her trauma moves into a new dimension. This chapter presents a case study of work in progress with a young woman who experienced such a trauma. The emotions expressed in her art work before the refusal and her subsequent thinking and images created after it, are discussed, together with her ways of defending herself with silence.
