Creating community life among immigrant survivors of torture and their allies

Creating community life among immigrant survivors of torture and their allies.

This qualitative study describes how immigrant survivors of torture in the United States built relationships among each other to form a psychological sense of community. Eight men and seven women from 11 different countries were recruited through a torture treatment center and a survivor-led advocacy and support coalition. This qualitative study explored how participants described their experie...

Trauma and identity: a narrative study among refugee torture survivors

The classical concept of PTSD has been criticized for many reasons, including its cultural limitations and negligence of long-lasting changes to personality, which has been documented in cases of chronic interpersonal trauma. The concept of complex PTSD has addressed these shortcomings and specifies ‘‘alterations in selfperception’’ as one of the characteristic changes in functioning following ...

Healing in survivors of torture.

Refugee Survivors of Torture: Trauma and Treatment

It is increasingly likely that psychologists may be faced with clients who have been tortured, although the significance of this background can be easily unrecognized or mishandled. With the growing incidence of refugees to the United States escaping from organized violence and human rights violations in many parts of the world, the need for psychological assistance in the recovery from torture...

The Tree of Life: a community approach to empowering and healing the survivors of torture in Zimbabwe.

The article explores the effectiveness of the use of an empowerment workshop, called the Tree of Life, in the treatment of torture survivors. The approach is based on a survivor-to-survivor model of assistance. Research into the effectiveness of the method is carried out using a pre- and post measures using a psychiatric screening instrument, measuring depression and anxiety. Participants were ...