Researching trauma in relation to gross human rights violations: a psychoanalytic and reflexive account

Donoso, Gina

doi:10.1080/14780887.2018.1472356

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“…Trauma therapists will experience strong negative feelings which will interfere irremediably with their work. This can be certainly applied to operators who work in the field of human rights and humanitarian action (Dalenberg, 2000;Donoso, 2018). For Verhaeghe, it is important to pay attention to the subject amplification and the creation of a trusted relationship.…”

Section: Psychology In Latin America and Ecuadormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As it has been put forward elsewhere (Donoso, 2018) group work is the best way to work with survivors of torture and political violence in order to create a conscious, political understanding of the traumatic events (Lira, Becker, & Castillo, 1991;Sveaass & Lavik, 2000). "For survivors of prolonged, repeated trauma, groups can be a powerful source of validation and support" (Herman, 1997, p. 157).…”

Section: Individual Clinical Models Mistakenly Extrapolated To Politimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In an earlier work (Donoso, 2018), I discussed the prominence of (counter) transference in trauma intervention.…”

Section: No Awareness About the Specificities Of Transference And Coumentioning

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“…With the exception of a few clinicians, many of the interviewed perceived the intense feelings of their clients as personal attacks. "Countertransference monitoring' of negative feelings in the therapists may become key to ethical research and potentially have a partial reparatory effect" (Donoso, 2018). To illustrate another example in relation to the medicalization and the use of non-political approaches to political trauma interventions.…”

Section: No Awareness About the Specificities Of Transference And Coumentioning

confidence: 99%

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"I have never worked with victims so victimized": Political trauma and the challenges of psychosocial interventions in Ecuador

Donoso

2018

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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This contribution aims at investigating critically how and to what extent psychosocial interventions are key elements of comprehensive subjective recovery from political trauma. The paper is based on the analysed data collected during a research project in Ecuador from eighteen in-depth interviews with clinical and social psychologists who had direct and indirect work experience with political trauma survivors, and thirty-seven survivors who were invited to participate in focus groups sessions based on a voluntary basis. The analysis questions which elements psychotherapy and other forms of reparative processes should take into account to address victims of political trauma in an effective and sensitive practice. The study´s main conclusions are that trauma survivors are affected by secondary victimization and their comprehensive recovery is drastically diminished because of: (1) lack of awareness of the need of political trauma approaches; (2) psychosocial reductionisms on the interconnection between the subjective and the political; and (3) psychologisation of political issues.

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Section: Psychology In Latin America and Ecuadormentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Individual Clinical Models Mistakenly Extrapolated To Politimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In an earlier work (Donoso, 2018), I discussed the prominence of (counter) transference in trauma intervention.…”

Section: No Awareness About the Specificities Of Transference And Coumentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: No Awareness About the Specificities Of Transference And Coumentioning

confidence: 99%

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"I have never worked with victims so victimized": Political trauma and the challenges of psychosocial interventions in Ecuador

Donoso

2018

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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“…A traumatic event "at least temporarily overwhelms the individual's resources" (Briere and Scott, 2014, p. 10), and presents "significant challenges to individuals' ways of understanding the world and their place in it" (Tedeschi and Calhoun, 2004, p. 1). Researchers are at risk of becoming traumatized when engaging with disturbing material (Coles et al, 2014;Donoso, 2021;Fohring, 2020). Accounts of researcher trauma enable scholars to make sense of their experiences, highlight potential hazards and provide practical recommendations for research.…”

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Shit happens. How do we make sense of that?

Jané

Fernandez²,

Hällgren³

2022

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to reflect upon how encountering trauma unexpectedly in the field informs the doing of fieldwork.Design/methodology/approach A reflexive essay approach was adopted to explore traumatic incidents in extreme contexts. Written vignettes, interviews, field notes and information conversations served as the bases for reflections.FindingsFour themes arose from the reflections (Bracketing, Institutional Pressure, Impact on Research and Unresolvedness). It was suggested that researchers engaged in extreme context research, and management and organization studies scholars engaged in dangerous fieldwork more broadly, are under institutional pressure to continue work that may put themselves in harm's way. Traumatic experiences also shape and reflect the researcher's identity, which informs choices about current and future research projects.Research limitations/implicationsIt was suggested that scholars will benefit from reading the accounts of others to reduce the burden of isolation that can accompany traumatic field experiences.Originality/valueExploring single traumatic events enabled in engaging with trauma encountered unexpectedly and directly in the field. The reflections reveal the effects of psychological and physical trauma on researchers, and highlight how trauma impacts the research process.

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Frosh

2019

Studies in the Psychosocial

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Researching trauma in relation to gross human rights violations: a psychoanalytic and reflexive account

Cited by 4 publications

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"I have never worked with victims so victimized": Political trauma and the challenges of psychosocial interventions in Ecuador

"I have never worked with victims so victimized": Political trauma and the challenges of psychosocial interventions in Ecuador

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