@article{ref1,
title="Helping traumatized people survive: a psychoanalytic intervention in a contaminated site",
journal="Frontiers in psychology",
year="2014",
author="Guglielmucci, Fanny and Franzoi, Isabella G. and Barbasio, Chiara P. and Borgogno, Francesca V. and Granieri, Antonella",
volume="5",
number="",
pages="1419-1419",
abstract="Psychoanalytic literature on extreme traumatization usually distinguishes between natural catastrophes and man-made catastrophes. While the first ones are usually sensed as nature's ferocity, fate, or God's will, the second ones are experienced as a volountary and violent attack aimed at disrupting other human beings. In this paper we focus on man-made disasters caused by a profit-driven logic. When traumatization is due to irresponsible actions perpetrated by the owners of the major economic resource of a community, it deeply affects the identity of the group, entailing the loss of basic trust and lively parts of the Self. In such a situation, where the whole community is severely traumatized, psychoanalytic group therapy seems to be the most suitable setting: it allows to place the historization of the event and the creation of multiple narratives of somato-psychic suffering. Trust and faith are two crucial factors in the encounter with patients lacking a sense of vitality. The working through of each one through the group field is an essential forerunner to the construction of a recovered sense of faith and reliability that precedes the onset of a true new-beginning.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1664-1078",
doi="10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01419",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01419"
}