Trauma, Flight and Migration (IPA in the Community)

This book brings together leading international psychoanalysts to discuss what psychoanalysis can offer to people who have experienced trauma, flight, and migration.

The four parts of the book cover several elements of this work, including psychoanalytic projects beyond the couch, and collaboration with the UN. Each chapter presents an example of the applications of psychoanalysis with a specific group or in a particular context, from working with refugees in China to understanding the experiences of women who have witnessed political violence in Peru. Psychoanalytic work with Trauma, Flight and Migration provides a compelling exploration of the international contributions made by psychoanalysis.

This innovative book will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists looking to learn more about working with people who have experienced the impact of traumatic movement or migration.

Vivienne Elton, MBBS, DPM, FRANZCP, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, past president and current training analyst of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society, and chair of the IPA in the Humanitarian Field Committee.

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, MD, Dr. phil., is former professor for psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel and director of the Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt a.M. She is currently senior professor at the University Medicine Mainz, training analyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV/IPA), vice chair of the Research Board of the IPA (2010–2021), and member and former chair of the IPA Subcommittee for Migration and Refugees.

Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp, Dr. phil., is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, training analyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV, IPA), and chair of the IPA Subcommittee for Migration and Refugees.

Vivian B. Pender, MD, is clinical professor of psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, and training psychoanalyst at Columbia University. She has chaired the UN Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association since 2009.