@article{ref1,
title="Reflections on healing and recovery from the legacies of trauma and violence",
journal="Torture: quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture",
year="2022",
author="Agger, Inger",
volume="32",
number="1/2",
pages="84-86",
abstract="With the arrival in Denmark of torture sur-vivors from Latin America in the nineteen seventies and eighties, therapists faced the challenge of how best to accompany the sur-vivors in their healing processes. The New Left and Feminism were important political movements which influenced the therapeu-tic approaches discussed at that time. In the author's meeting with Latin American col-leagues a dialogue about therapeutic methods was further developed with emphasis on the connection between &quot;Human Rights and Mental Health&quot;. The civil war in the Balkans in the nineties brought new challenges: the development of psychosocial community in-terventions as well as an intensification of the debate between the &quot;medical&quot; and psycho-social approaches to trauma healing. Coop-eration during the last decade with NGOs in e.g., India, Cambodia, and Honduras brought new and more holistic perspectives on therapy represented by a brief version of Testimonial Therapy that sought to integrate cultural and spiritual traditions as well as &quot;third wave&quot; cognitive methods.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1018-8185",
doi="10.7146/torture.v32i1-2.129580",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/torture.v32i1-2.129580"
}