'No Five Fingers are Alike': What Exiled Kurdish Women in Therapy Told Me

by Nora Ahlberg

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367325664
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2019
Series:	The International Series of Psychosocial Perspectives on Trauma, Displaced People & Political Violence
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nora Ahlberg has a background as a full professor--alternately of psychology and comparative religion--at three out of four Norwegian universities, in addition to the Oslo University College, and as Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki. She is presently head of the Norwegian Centre for Minority Health Research and Professor of Transcultural Psychology at the Medical Faculty at the University of Oslo. Before taking up this position she was professor and head of both the Psychosocial Centre for Refugees at the University of Oslo and the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Trondheim.

Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Foreword — About the Author — Author’s Foreword to the Present Edition — Introduction — A Cultural Study of Clinical Context — The Interdisciplinary Challenge — Psychological Trauma Reconsidered — The Torture Versus Exile Trauma — Violation of Gender — Violations of Intergenerational Obligations — Clientification as a Re-Actualised Trauma — The Collective Dimensions of Trauma — The Millenarian Heritage of the Modern Age — The Cumulative Effects of Trauma — Therapy in a Cross-Cultural Setting — Patterns of Exchange in Cross-Cultural Trauma Therapy — The Aesthetics of Cross-Cultural Therapeutic Interaction — On The Narrative Approach and Meaning-Formation — Postscript — Symbolic Shelter in a Changing World — On Methodological Choice and the Study of Sensitive Issues — List of Clients’ Narratives Found in the Text