Trauma, Flight and Migration: Psychoanalytic Perspectives - Paperback

by Vivienne Elton (Editor), Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber (Editor), Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp (Editor)

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

Author Biography

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.