PSYKOSOCIALT ARBEJDE MED VOLDENS OFRE.

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Abstract

Examples are given from Colombia and Peru on how the political and cultural context gives different forms for psychsocial work with the survivors of state organized violence. In Colombia the people are very interested in psychotherapy, whereas people in Peru do have an almost opposite attitude. The PTSD-diagnose, concepts
of violence and cultural development are given along with concrete examples from the Latinamerican Violencia studies. Only by relating the PTSD-diagnosis and the crisis-intervention treatment with an analysing ofthe historical and actual context in an linguistic reference, it can be understood why different roles for the psychologist are given and thereby different ways ofreconciliation.