Un Petit Sac à Dos Avec Quelques Viatiques: Object Relations, the Expressive Arts, and the (Re-)Animation of Resourceful, Pleasurable, and Adaptive Object-Life in the Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors

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2025-10
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Felczak, Luke
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The torture experience represents a profound affront to both intrapsychological and interpersonal life. The rehabilitation of torture survivors, who often present with complex post-traumatic impairment, has become a sub-specialization of psychotherapeutic practice. Torture survivors often present with significant alterations to what are otherwise believed to be stable personality traits and psychodynamic structures. As such, a psychodynamic approach to the rehabilitation of torture survivors, which targets the psychodynamic structures that subtend the personality, may be reasonably indicated. The purpose of this project is to provide an overview of the core concepts and practices of object relations informed psychotherapeutic modalities and expressive arts therapy. In light of the clinical, psychodynamic, and intergenerational consequences of the torture experience for both survivors and their families, this research project will also integrate core concepts and practices from object relations informed psychotherapeutic modalities and expressive arts therapy in the formulation of a novel psychotherapeutic approach: object relations informed expressive arts therapy (OR-EXAT). The purpose of this innovative psychotherapeutic approach is to advance both theoretical and practical considerations in the rehabilitation of torture survivors.
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object-relations , expressive arts therapy , torture , survivors , rehabilitation
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11803/4990
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