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Assault on the Soul - Women in the Former Yugoslavia (Paperback)
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Assault on the Soul - Women in the Former Yugoslavia (Paperback)
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Assault on the Soul: Women in the Former Yugoslavia sheds light
upon women s wartime experiences and makes sense of their coping
strategies in the face of the innumerable atrocities committed
against them. This is the only book to present the experiences of
therapists, counselors, and other mental health professionals along
with attorneys and Justices of the International Criminal Tribunal
in working from both psychological and legal perspectives with
women in former Yugoslavia. The workers who relate their
experiences come from both former Yugoslavia and other nations,
representing countries such as Norway, Germany, Holland, Costa Rica
and the United States. Focusing on this region offers you a look at
applied feminist practice in a cultural context outside the United
States or Northern European. Assault on the Soul contains an
integration of feminist theories and practice in psychology, women
s history, women s geography, and women s jurisprudence. This
collection of articles is intended as a historical document, as
assurance that both the plight of women and the role of women in
bringing it to the attention of the international community and the
justice system will not be erased. Assault on the Soul will help
you serve your patients'needs by focusing on such issues as:
feminist psychology and global issues concerning crimes against
women interviews with judges for the International Criminal
Tribunal Belgrade feminists'experiences working with female
survivors of war supporting women s projects in the former
Yugoslavia traumatized women and the impact of a women-centered
training program in Bosnia psychosocial services among refugee
women during the war the victims and perpetrators of Serbia reports
of rapes, killings, burning villages, and other serious war
crimesAssault on the Soul gives you first-hand accounts of war
trauma to women. Deeply moving and well written, the articles in
this book are written in a combination of legal and psychological
approaches to help you teach clients to heal from severe, acute,
and chronic trauma. "
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