Group
Volume 18, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 46-54
Traumatization of group leaders in their work with displaced persons (Article)
Diminić I. ,
Frančišković T. ,
Delić B. ,
Serdarević I. ,
Moro L.*
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Community Primary Health Care Center, Croatia
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Department of Psychiatry, Mental Health Coordinator for Rijeka Region, Clinical Hospital of Rijeka, Croatia
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[Affiliation not available]
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Medical School, University of Rijeka, Croatia
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University of Rijeka, Croatia, Clinical Hospital Center of Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
Displaced persons are a special, threatened group of people, participants in this war, who were suddenly forced to abandon their homes. The majority of them were, "overnight," left without anything they had, some even without their closest family. They all have one thing in common: they have all lost so much. Work with such people is directed toward overcoming their feelings of loss and abandonment and preventing psychical decompensation. Groups of displaced persons temporarily sheltered in the Rijeka region have been observed to be markedly regressed, with increased sensitivity, a low degree of tolerance, great demands on society and strongly expressed projective tendencies. Therapists suffer personal traumatization in working with displaced persons. This paper describes the reactions and feelings of group leaders caused by manifestations of group dynamics in different phases of exile. © 1994 Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society.
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DOI: 10.1007/BF01459718
ISSN: 03624021
Original Language: English