“Arrivals”: Narrating Migration through Images. The Use of Images in Post-Traumatic Therapy †
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Department of Human Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy
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Approdi Association, 40134 Bologna, Italy
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AITF-Associazione Istituti di Terapia Familiare, 53100 Siena, Italy
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Presented at the International and Interdisciplinary Conference IMMAGINI? Image and Imagination between Representation, Communication, Education and Psychology, Brixen, Italy, 27–28 November 2017.
Proceedings 2017, 1(9), 882; https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1090882
Published: 14 November 2017
(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Proceedings of the International and Interdisciplinary Conference IMMAGINI? Brixen, Italy, 27–28 November 2017.)
This essay wants to underline the importance of images as a tool to access traumatic memories of refugees. The authors propose a narrative technique (post-traumatic intervention model) using the power of images and their potentialities. Arrivals’ images facilitate the chance to recall, narrate, accept, understand and hold complex and painful stories: they have the extraordinary ability to organize difficult events by placing them in space and time, giving the opportunity to “speak the unspeakable”.
Keywords:
trauma; psychology; refugees; complex PTSD; images; psychotherapy; migration
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Cavazzoni, F.; Siracusa, V.; Castagner, V.; Balibrea, Y.; Manduri, D. “Arrivals”: Narrating Migration through Images. The Use of Images in Post-Traumatic Therapy. Proceedings 2017, 1, 882. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1090882
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Cavazzoni F, Siracusa V, Castagner V, Balibrea Y, Manduri D. “Arrivals”: Narrating Migration through Images. The Use of Images in Post-Traumatic Therapy. Proceedings. 2017; 1(9):882. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1090882
Chicago/Turabian StyleCavazzoni, Federica, Valentina Siracusa, Vittoria Castagner, Yaiza Balibrea, and Diego Manduri. 2017. "“Arrivals”: Narrating Migration through Images. The Use of Images in Post-Traumatic Therapy" Proceedings 1, no. 9: 882. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1090882
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