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Citation

Luci M. J. Anal. Psychol. 2023; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023, Society of Analytical Psychology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1468-5922.12902

PMID

37012657

Abstract

In very rare cases, individuals survive the atrocities of abduction, imprisonment and torture that are part of the hallmark of enforced disappearances. Cases of people who survive torture and seek asylum in a third country help us understand some important aspects related to the crime of enforced disappearance. In the psychotherapy of torture survivors, at an early stage and for a long time, words often do not convey the core of the patient's experience. Survivors usually have tormented bodies in which individual and collective violence, hatred, anger, guilt and shame are painfully inscribed. Corporeal countertransference becomes the only possible way for a therapist to get in touch with a survivor's experience through a kind of body-to-body communication. The centrality of the body in these therapies suggests that the body is the involuntary recipient and container of mass political atrocities and, for this reason, the place where, in the case of horrific social violence, the possibility of social "knowing" is stored and can be retrieved. Thus, when it comes to forced disappearance, the determination of the relatives to get to the truth through the discovery of the remains of their disappeared demonstrates the importance of the body as the final witness of what happened, beyond any possible manipulation.


Language: en

Keywords

Trauma; body; trauma; torture; 创伤; asse Io-Sé; axe moi-soi; connaissance; conoscenza; contratransferencia somática; contretransfert somatique; controtransfert somatico; corpo; corps; cuerpo; eje ego-self; Folter; knowing; Körper; remains; Reste; restes humains; resti; restos; saber; Selbst-Ich-Achse; self-ego axis; somatic countertransference; somatische Gegenübertragung; tortura; traumatisme; truth; verdad; verità; vérité; Wahrheit; Wissen; знание; истина; останки; ось эго-самость; пытки; соматический контрперенос; тело; травма; 真相; 知道; 自性-自我轴; 身体; 身体反移情; 遗体; 酷刑

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