Grief and Disappearance: Psychosocial Interventions

The volume studies psychotherapeutic practices that have been used to counsel people who have suffered loss in the wake of political and natural exigencies. With case studies, it illustrates the psychodynamic processes involved and how social workers, psychologists and doctors need to understand patients who have suffered loss and handle them. A translation from the German, the work focuses on the victims as well as family members of victims in relation to enforced disappearances and ‘missing persons’ as a result of State/community violence. It studies individual reactions to enforced disappearances and interventions for communities after enforced disappearances, collective forms of coping and the way to build relationship with refugees and the families of people who have disappeared suddenly in the context of violence by State/armed groups.