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Author: Monica Luci
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.362kg
ISBN: 9781138908604
ISBN 10: 1138908606
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 03 May 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The strengths of this book are subtle and important. It provides a unique and innovative approach to a painful and topical problem. It creates a new methodological framework combining psychoanalysis and human rights, within the context of the actual realities of working with those who were tortured. It is for these reasons that it represents a substantial contribution to the field. Strongly recommended both to specialists and general readers. -Renos K. Papadopoulos, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees, University of Essex, UK. A striking and original integration of several fields. Monica Luci's experience, knowledge and vision enable her to locate torture at all points along a line ranging from a vicious, corrupt and oppressive societal phenomenon to clinical work with victims. Hence the book will deeply interest a plurality of readers, ranging from specialists in human rights to therapists of all schools who need guidance and inspiration in this area. -Andrew Samuels, former Chair, UK Council for Psychotherapy and Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex.
The strengths of this book are subtle and important. It provides a unique and innovative approach to a painful and topical problem. It creates a new methodological framework combining psychoanalysis and human rights, within the context of the actual realities of working with those who were tortured. It is for these reasons that it represents a substantial contribution to the field. Strongly recommended both to specialists and general readers. -Renos K. Papadopoulos, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees, University of Essex, UK.
'The strengths of this book are subtle and important. It provides a unique and innovative approach to a painful and topical problem. It creates a new methodological framework combining psychoanalysis and human rights, within the context of the actual realities of working with those who were tortured. It is for these reasons that it represents a substantial contribution to the field. Strongly recommended both to specialists and general readers.' - Renos K. Papadopoulos, PhD, Professor and Director, Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees, University of Essex, UK 'A striking and original integration of several fields. Monica Luci's experience, knowledge and vision enable her to locate torture at all points along a line ranging from a vicious, corrupt and oppressive societal phenomenon to clinical work with victims. Hence the book will deeply interest a plurality of readers, ranging from specialists in human rights to therapists of all schools who need guidance and inspiration in this area.'- Andrew Samuels, former Chair, UK Council for Psychotherapy and Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex 'Monica Luci has written a brilliant and searing book. It is deep and wide reaching, with great courage and fortitude as a writer and thinker, she considers the catastrophic experience of torture: the what and the why and the how of torture. Luci explores what arguably is the most toxic threat to democratic process and civilized society. Among the many heartbreaking conclusions her book arrives at is the terrible destruction of subjectivity that is the aim and outcome of torture. Luci has undertaken, and very clearly achieved, an in-depth exploration of how deeply we can benefit from a psychoanalytic (and social and moral) examination of torture, of torture-driven social formations and of the conditions of social and economic vulnerability which make any group vulnerable to becoming torturers.' - Adrienne Harris, PhD, Sandor Ferenczi Center, The New School, USA
Author Information
Monica Luci, PhD, is an analytical psychologist and relational psychoanalyst, with extensive experience in the psycho-social assistance and psychotherapeutic work with asylum seekers and refugee survivors of torture. On the topics of survivors of torture and post-traumatic states in psychological assessment, psychotherapy and research, she has contributed to a number of international conferences and taught in several professional and academic contexts. She is also an author, translator and editor of publications on the themes of trauma, collective violence, cultural studies, transcultural psychology, sexuality and ethical issues.
