ABSTRACT:
Psychic work of exile: the body of the resistant transition. The following paper presents considerations on therapeutic interventions with refugees in Brazil through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In face of situations of solidarity resettlement of refugees from different cultures, we have observed that the specificity of exile trauma requests one to express in the body the conflicts originating from a displacement situation. The analytical work begins when the use of a different language is necessary to have those individuals express their suffering. Our main hypothesis relines on analyzing how the somatic manifestations presented by those individuals are attached to the identity destabilization symptoms of exile.
Keywords:
Exile; body; refugees; trauma; mourning