TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Reflections on healing and recovery from the legacies of trauma and violence
JO  - Torture: quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture
A1  - Agger, Inger
SP  - 84
EP  - 86
VL  - 32
IS  - 1/2
N2  - 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 "Human Rights and Mental Health". 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 "medical" 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 "third wave" cognitive methods.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1018-8185
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/torture.v32i1-2.129580
ID  - ref1
ER  -