Andres Gautier (Bolivia) Ph.D. is an adolescents and adult psychotherapist. He has worked for many years in Switzerland as psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice and penitentiary institutions. He is coordinator of the working group of the EFPP on "Trauma and State Violence". In 2001 he founded, together with Emma Bolshia Bravo, the Institute for Therapy and Research on the Sequels of Torture and State Violence (ITEI) in La Paz, Bolivia. Anna Sabatini Scalmati (Italy) is a psychoanalytical psychotherapist, training and supervising member of the Italian Association of Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy for Children (AIPPI) and member of the Italian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Adults (SIPP) She lives and works in Rome and is author of several articles.

• Series Editors’ Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Far Away from Home -- Ambiguity as a defence in extreme trauma -- Routes to the unspeakable: working with victims of torture -- Social conflicts and psychic suffering -- Internal homelessness -- The post-traumatic nightmare: the via regia to unconscious integration? -- The rupture of links in the context of migration: open-mouthed and sewn-mouths -- There where Horror Happens -- The place of compassion in political conflict -- Tell me your story: psychoanalytical trauma psychotherapy in South Africa -- The psychoanalyst: from private witness to public testimony

ContributorsSilvia Amati Sas, Mary Raphaely, Anna Sabatini Scalmati, Paulina Ceppi di Lecco Reyes and Alejandro Reyes, Liselotte Grunbaum, Francois Fleury and Shadman Mahmoud-Shwana, Gabriela Mann, Katarina Ley, Andres Gautier

Andres Gautier (Bolivia) Ph.D. is an adolescents and adult psychotherapist. He has worked for many years in Switzerland as psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice and penitentiary institutions. He is coordinator of the working group of the EFPP on "Trauma and State Violence". In 2001 he founded, together with Emma Bolshia Bravo, the Institute for Therapy and Research on the Sequels of Torture and State Violence (ITEI) in La Paz, Bolivia. Anna Sabatini Scalmati (Italy) is a psychoanalytical psychotherapist, training and supervising member of the Italian Association of Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy for Children (AIPPI) and member of the Italian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Adults (SIPP) She lives and works in Rome and is author of several articles.

• Series Editors’ Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Far Away from Home -- Ambiguity as a defence in extreme trauma -- Routes to the unspeakable: working with victims of torture -- Social conflicts and psychic suffering -- Internal homelessness -- The post-traumatic nightmare: the via regia to unconscious integration? -- The rupture of links in the context of migration: open-mouthed and sewn-mouths -- There where Horror Happens -- The place of compassion in political conflict -- Tell me your story: psychoanalytical trauma psychotherapy in South Africa -- The psychoanalyst: from private witness to public testimony

ContributorsSilvia Amati Sas, Mary Raphaely, Anna Sabatini Scalmati, Paulina Ceppi di Lecco Reyes and Alejandro Reyes, Liselotte Grunbaum, Francois Fleury and Shadman Mahmoud-Shwana, Gabriela Mann, Katarina Ley, Andres Gautier

Andres Gautier (Bolivia) Ph.D. is an adolescents and adult psychotherapist. He has worked for many years in Switzerland as psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice and penitentiary institutions. He is coordinator of the working group of the EFPP on "Trauma and State Violence". In 2001 he founded, together with Emma Bolshia Bravo, the Institute for Therapy and Research on the Sequels of Torture and State Violence (ITEI) in La Paz, Bolivia. Anna Sabatini Scalmati (Italy) is a psychoanalytical psychotherapist, training and supervising member of the Italian Association of Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy for Children (AIPPI) and member of the Italian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Adults (SIPP) She lives and works in Rome and is author of several articles.

• Series Editors’ Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Far Away from Home -- Ambiguity as a defence in extreme trauma -- Routes to the unspeakable: working with victims of torture -- Social conflicts and psychic suffering -- Internal homelessness -- The post-traumatic nightmare: the via regia to unconscious integration? -- The rupture of links in the context of migration: open-mouthed and sewn-mouths -- There where Horror Happens -- The place of compassion in political conflict -- Tell me your story: psychoanalytical trauma psychotherapy in South Africa -- The psychoanalyst: from private witness to public testimony

ContributorsSilvia Amati Sas, Mary Raphaely, Anna Sabatini Scalmati, Paulina Ceppi di Lecco Reyes and Alejandro Reyes, Liselotte Grunbaum, Francois Fleury and Shadman Mahmoud-Shwana, Gabriela Mann, Katarina Ley, Andres Gautier