ABSTRACT

This book, the second in the International Series of Psychosocial Perspectives on Trauma, Displaced People and Political Violence, focuses on refugee women and one of the few that limit their scope only to one group of refugees – the Kurds in Norway.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

Towards Interdisciplinary Theory and Understanding

part one|2 pages

A Cultural Study of Clinical Context

chapter 1|16 pages

The Interdisciplinary Challenge

chapter 2|30 pages

Psychological Trauma Reconsidered

chapter 3|12 pages

The Torture Versus Exile Trauma

chapter 4|16 pages

Violation of Gender

chapter 6|15 pages

Clientification as a Re-Actualised Trauma

chapter 7|30 pages

The Collective Dimensions of Trauma

chapter 8|22 pages

The Millenarian Heritage of the Modern Age

chapter 9|6 pages

The Cumulative Effects of Trauma

part two|2 pages

Therapy in a Cross-Cultural Setting

part |2 pages

Postscript