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Between the Body and Social Trauma: Working with the Aftermath of Torture

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Emotion

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Psychoanalysis with its emphasis on the internal world has struggled with the relation between the psychic and the social; this is in spite of the fact that psychoanalysis emerged in the context of war, immigration and refugee plight. Following the Freud-Klein controversies 1941–1945 in which debate around the role of the social and the political in psychic life raged, there has been the emergence of relational psychoanalysis resulting in a flourish of writings, technique and research.

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  1. University of East London, UK

    Shelley Day Sclater (Professor Emerita of Psychology and Law), David W. Jones (Principal Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies), Heather Price (Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies) & Candida Yates (Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies) (Professor Emerita of Psychology and Law),  (Principal Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies),  (Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies) &  (Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies)

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Diamond, N. (2009). Between the Body and Social Trauma: Working with the Aftermath of Torture. In: Sclater, S.D., Jones, D.W., Price, H., Yates, C. (eds) Emotion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245136_17

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