ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author shares some experiences, clinical observations as well as some psychoanalytic conceptual considerations. He focuses on the question if and how we, as psychoanalysts, may contribute to the attempt to help some of the severely traumatised refugee children and adolescents in the acute societal situation. As psychoanalysts, we have a broad knowledge how destructive man-made disasters might be for the traumatised and their offspring. Can we contribute to decrease the probability that the traumas will determine, often in a hidden destructive way, not only the lives of the adult refugees, but also those of their children and even grandchildren? The so-called refugee crisis surprised politicians, citizens as well as other such professional groups including medical doctors, social scientists and psychoanalysts.
