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The article provides a citation for a journal article titled "Torture survivors in analytic therapy: Jung, politics, culture" by Monica Luci. The article explores the experiences of torture survivors in analytic therapy, examining the intersection of Jungian psychology, politics, and culture. The author's affiliation is the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex in the UK. The article was published in 2022 and is available through the journal "Journal of Analytical Psychology." [Extracted from the article]

This article is an editorial introducing a special issue of the Journal of Analytical Psychology on the topic of psyche and politics. The issue is a result of a conference held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, titled "Do we really have the answer? A psycho-political agenda for interdependence: Bridging wish and actuality in an unhinged world." The conference aimed to explore the intersection of analytical psychology and political activism, and the articles in the special issue discuss various aspects of this relationship. The authors argue that the interest in this topic has emerged due to the historical relevance of fear and the evolving nature of psychoanalysis as a discipline. They emphasize the importance of understanding the connection between the inner world of the psyche and the outer dynamics of politics. The articles cover a range of themes, including paranoia and fragmentation, the role of psychoanalysis in dealing with crises, the influence of American patriarchy on mass shootings, the perspective of queer analysts, the concept of analyzability, the impact of war on mentalization, intergenerational traumas, and the analysis of modern artists. The authors believe that this special issue is urgent and necessary in order to better explore the relationship between psyche and politics and gain a profound understanding of both. [Extracted from the article]

In very rare cases, individuals survive the atrocities of abduction, imprisonment and torture that are part of the hallmark of enforced disappearances. Cases of people who survive torture and seek asylum in a third country help us understand some important aspects related to the crime of enforced disappearance. In the psychotherapy of torture survivors, at an early stage and for a long time, words often do not convey the core of the patient's experience. Survivors usually have tormented bodies in which individual and collective violence, hatred, anger, guilt and shame are painfully inscribed. Corporeal countertransference becomes the only possible way for a therapist to get in touch with a survivor's experience through a kind of body‐to‐body communication. The centrality of the body in these therapies suggests that the body is the involuntary recipient and container of mass political atrocities and, for this reason, the place where, in the case of horrific social violence, the possibility of social "knowing" is stored and can be retrieved. Thus, when it comes to forced disappearance, the determination of the relatives to get to the truth through the discovery of the remains of their disappeared demonstrates the importance of the body as the final witness of what happened, beyond any possible manipulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In recent years ongoing wars and serious violations of human rights have driven increasing numbers of people away from their homes, especially in the Middle East and Africa to countries in the European Union to seek asylum. It is estimated that between 5% and 35% of these asylum-seekers and refugees have suffered from torture or serious violence. Studies and practice have shown that an appropriate response to the special needs of victims of torture or serious violence contribute to reduce survivors' suffering and provide properly international protection. EU legislation recognizes that such vulnerable individuals have special needs, but few of these needs have already been identified and recognized as such. This article reports on a qualitative study carried out in six EU countries - France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta and Portugal - to explore the special needs of victims of torture or serious violence who present among asylum-seekers, during the asylum request procedure, in reception, and throughout rehabilitation and social integration. The study aims to release into the academic community the results of a large policy and practice-oriented study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The title of this paper, 'The mark of torture,' comes from the clinical insight that in the intersubjective field of therapy for torture survivors a distinct set of motives tends to repeat itself. These motives are here conceptualized as 'perversion-like states', since they present features and dynamics that can also be found in the so-called 'perversions'. However, the limits and the sense of the use of this term will be discussed and clarified. It is argued that such states are the result of the perverse traumatic experiences of torture in which trauma represents only the pars destruens of the process, the disrupting device that disintegrates the previous psychological organization and leaves posttraumatic symptoms as traces of the impact of this experience; while the 'perversion' constructs and converts the functioning of mind - pars construens - through its characteristic use of body and pain. It is assumed that this happens through an implicit registration of the experience that may or may not reach the point of changing the characteristics of the person's object relations. A clinical vignette outlining the development of a particular course of therapy with a torture survivor will illustrate some of these peculiar aspects. This paper implies that a well-founded understanding of these aspects in the interpersonal dynamics of therapy may help the therapeutic dyad to unpack crucial themes created by torture, thus accelerating the patient's progress towards recovery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]