Barbara K. Eisold (Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New Y

Psychodynamic Perspectives on Asylum Seekers and the Asylum-Seeking Process

Encountering Well-Founded Fear

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Psychodynamic Perspectives on Asylum Seekers and the Asylum-Seeking Process looks at the psychosocial assessment of asylum seekers from three perspectives: forensic, psychodynamic, and political and then attempts to better understand, from a psycho-dynamic perspective, differences in the historical/motivational routes of asylum seekers

Produktdetails

• Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9781138354456
• ISBN-10: 1138354457
• Artikelnr.: 54589491

Autorenporträt

Barbara Eisold has worked as an evaluator of asylum seekers in collaboration with a number of organizations, including Health Rights International, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and The Cardozo School of Law, where she is an associate faculty member. She is also a faculty member of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and maintains a private psychotherapy practice in New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter One: The nature of psychosocial asylum evaluations:
Implications for client and clinician Chapter Two: Heroic Asylum seekers
from around the world Chapter Three: Female Genital Mutilation and the wish
for "life": Cultural considerations in the development of personal agency
Chapter Four: Central American Women on the Run: Feminicide and its
history; Afterword; Appendix I: Asylum Law in Brief Appendix II:
Imprisoning Asylum Seekers Appendix III: Outline: Prospective Affidavit of
A Mental Health Professional in Support of An Asylum Seeker Appendix IV:
Female Genital Mutilation: Facts and Figures Appendix V: Background
information: My Clients/ Other Women with FGM