Cyril Kenneth Adonis (Johannesburg, South Africa), research
psychologist, doctoral candidate in conflict analysis and resolution at Nova
Southeastern University in the United States; his dissertation focuses on
transgenerational trauma and forgiveness. Now a research manager for the
Independent Complaints Directorate (statutory body dealing with police
misconduct) in South Africa. Consulted to the Center for the Study of Violence
and Reconciliation on projects related to forgiveness and memorialization and
transgenerational memory in post-apartheid South Africa.
Rym Akhonzada (Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a research
co-ordinator in the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work in
Queen’s University Belfast researching the effectiveness of services for victims
of political violence in Northern Ireland. She has published in international
journals and presented at national and international conferences. See www.qub.ac.uk/sw/research/pave.html.
Dan Bar-On (Beer Sheva, Israel), professor of psychology at the department of behavioral sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, co-director of PRIME (Peace Research Institute in the Middle East) near Beit Jala (within the Palestinian National Authority), together with professor Sami Adwan of Bethlehem University. Latest books: The Indescribable and the Undiscussable: Reconstructing Human Discourse after Trauma, Budapest; New York, 1998; Tell Your Life Story: Creating Dialogue among Jews and Germans, Israelis and Palestinians, ib., 2006. See Dan Bar-On´s personal website at www.bgu.ac.il/~danbaron/.
Alice-Mihaela Bardan (Los Angeles, CA, USA), Ph.D.
candidate, University of Southern California, Department of English, holds M.A.s
in English from the Univ. of Southern California and Emporia State University,
KS., an M.A. in American cultural studies, and a B.A. in English and French from
the Al. I. Cuza Univ. in Iasi, Romania. Her current research focuses on
contemporary European cinema, Holocaust theory, trauma film, and the contested
ways in which the Communist past is remembered in Central and Eastern Europe.
Vladan Beara (Novi Sad, Serbia), psychologist, REBT
psychotherapist and associate fellow of the Albert Ellis Institute NYC. From
1991-1999, he acted as program coordinator of the Association for Mental Health
Protection of War Veterans and Victims of War. Since 1995 he has focused on work
with traumatized persons through UNICEF, IAN, and Fund for Open Society Programs
as coordinator, adviser, and evaluator.
David Becker (Berlin, Germany), psychologist, PhD, has
worked for the Latin-American Institute for Human Rights and Mental Health, and
most recently for the International Academy at the Free University of Berlin.
Consulted to GTZ, WHO, SDC, UNDP-El Salvador. Experience in Angola, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Chile, El Salvador, Croatia, Northern Ireland, and Serbia. Founder
of the Office of Psychosocial Issues, see www.opsiconsult.com. Member of
the steering committee for this conference.
Cornelia Berens (Hamburg, Germany), M.A., literary
historian, academic coordinator of the Trauma Research Network and long-term
guest fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, editor of the
TRN-Newsletter. See www.traumaresearch.net.
Executive member of the steering committee for this conference.
Elise Bittenbinder (Berlin, Germany), staff member of Xenion
Berlin, Psychotherapeutic Advice Centre for Refugees. Bittenbinder is president
of The German Association of Psychosocial Centres for Refugees and Torture
Victims (BAFF), See www.baff-zentren.org/.
José Brunner (Tel Aviv, Israel), d irector of the Minerva
Institute for German History; professor at the Buchmann Faculty of Law and the
Cohn Institute of the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv
University. Main areas of research and teaching: History and politics of
psychoanalysis and discourse on trauma; modern and contemporary political
thought; time and law; psychological explanations of Nazism and genocide;
practices of compensation for Holocaust survivors. See www.tau.ac.il/law/josebrunner/. Member of the steering committee for this conference.
Yves Alexandre Chouala (Yaoundé, Cameroon), senior
research fellow, Group of Administrative, Political, and Social Research,
University of Yaoundé II-Soa; associate professor, International Relations
Institute of Cameroon (IRIC). Doctor of political science, thesis title:
Inter-Statism in the Gulf of Guinea: A Contribution of the Field Paradigm to
the Sociology of International Relations, 2003. Doctor of international
relations, thesis title: Disorder and Order in Central Africa.
Democratisation, Conflicts, and Regional Geopolitical Shifts, 2000.
Stephen Coulter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), a social worker
and family therapist who has worked in the areas of family support, child
protection, and child and adolescent mental health services for more then 20
years. He currently works as a senior family therapist and clinical coordinator
of the Family Trauma Centre in Belfast, a regional service addressing the
psychological needs of children and their families following trauma. Stephen
Coulter contributes to family therapy training courses and is a clinical
supervisor for MSc trainees in systemic psychotherapy.
Karola Dillenburger (Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a
clinical psychologist (BPS) and senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology,
Social Policy, and Social Work at Queen’s University of Belfast. Her main
research interests include applied behaviour analysis in the areas of parent
training, bereavement, child sex abuse, and autism. She has published widely in
national and international journals. She is presently principal investigator on
the PAVE project, exploring effectiveness of services delivered to people
affected by violence in Northern Ireland. See www.qub.ac.uk/sw/research/pave.html.
Montse Fargas (Belfast, Northern Ireland) holds a degree in
sociology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Autonomous University of
Barcelona) and a M.Phil in women’s studies from Trinity College Dublin.
Currently, she is a research fellow in the School of Sociology, Social Policy
and Social Work in Queen’s University Belfast researching the effectiveness of
services for victims of political violence in Northern Ireland. See www.qub.ac.uk/sw/research/pave.html. She has published in international journals and presented at national and
international conferences.
Hannes Fricke (Stuttgart, Germany), Dr. phil., is an editor
for the publishing company Philipp Reclam jun. in Stuttgart. Fricke studied
sociology in Bielefeld and German literature and philosophy in Göttingen. As a
visiting lecturer at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and at the
University of Stuttgart, he teaches “Introduction to the Psychology of
Literature”.
Catherine Grandsard (Paris, France), PhD, clinical
psychologist, associate professor of psychology and psychopathology and
co-director of the Georges Devereux Center, University of Paris 8; see www.ethnopsychiatrie.net. Areas of interest: psychotherapy for multicultural families, psychic
trauma treatment, ethnopsychiatry. Author of a book on Jewish-Christian
intermarriage.
Kathrin Groninger (Berlin, Germany; Kigali, Rwanda),
psychologist, from 2000-2004 at the service center for refugees and immigrants
of the German Red Cross in Berlin. Since 2003 a member of the external
commission on custody pending deportation, she has begun training as a
psychotherapist at the Institute for Psychological Psychotherapy and Counseling
in Berlin (ppt). She is now serving as a peacebuilding worker in the Civil Peace
Corps of the German Development Service (DED) in Rwanda. Together with the
partner organization Kanyarwanda, she is developing a structure for co-operation
and dialog for dealing with post-conflict trauma.
Esther Grossmann (München, Germany; London, UK),
psychologist. MSc Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies, University College,
London; awarded in 2003 the Joseph Sandler Prize for Best Dissertation of the
Year: Repetition Compulsion, Death Drive and Traumatic Memory. Completion
of 2nd Degree in Psychology at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich in 2005.
Since 2004 Grossmann has worked as Assistant Child Psychotherapist in the
‘Tavistock Outreach Project in Schools’ in London. In 09/2006 she is starting
her clinical training as a child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Centre.
Renate Haas (Berlin, Germany), Dr. paed., MA (ethnology), educationalist, director of the Institut für Kulturanalyse in Berlin [Institute for Cultural Analysis]. See: www.kulturanalyse.org. Developed a program “’Experience of Violence–Trauma–Reconciliation. Dealing with Traumatised Persons in Different Societies’. Eine Fortbildung für Mitarbeiter der Internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit” [advanced education for staff members of international development cooperation]. Research interests: theories of culture and experience of violence; denial of history; and art.
Brandon Hamber (Belfast, Northern Ireland), Psychologist,
PhD, has worked for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
(South Africa), and currently Honorary Fellow of INCORE, a United Nations
Research Centre for the Study of Conflict at the University of Ulster.
Consultant to and co-founder of the Office of Psychosocial Issues at the Free
University, Berlin and a Research Associate of Democratic Dialogue. Consulted to
South African Government Health Department, GTZ (South Africa), Special EU
Programmes Body, Healing through Remembering (Northern Ireland), SDC, Foundation
for Peace Network. Experience in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Brazil and
Sierra Leone. See www.brandonhamber.com/.
Carol Harrington (Budapest, Hungary), Ph.D. in sociology
from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, in 1998 and now assistant
professor of political science, Central European University, Budapest; edited
together with Ayman Salem and Tamara Zurabishvili After Communism: Critical
Perspectives on Society and Sociology (Bern: Peter Lang AG, European
Academic Publishers, 2004). [Attendance to be confirmed]
Dayton Henderson (Berkeley, CA, USA) is currently completing
his PhD project in German literature and film at the University of California,
Berkeley.
Lynne Jones (Cambridge, UK), Child and adolescent psychiatrist. Technical adviser in mental health for International Medical Corps, responsible for establishing mental health programmes in emergencies. Has worked in the Balkans; Afghanistan; Iraq, Sierra Leone; Liberia; Aceh; Sri Lanka; Pakistan; Chad; Mississipi post Katrina. Researcher and writer. Research associate, Developmental psychiatry section, Cambridge University. Author of Then They Started Shooting, Growing up in Wartime Bosnia, Cambridge, MA 2004. Particular interest in childrens resilience in the face of disaster and in the dynamics of mass grief.
André Karger (Düsseldorf, Germany), physician, psychiatrist,
psychoanalyst, works at the Clinical Institute of Psychosomatic Medicine and
Psychotherapy at the Düsseldorf University Hospital; see www.uniklinik-duesseldorf.de/psychosomatische-medizin. He is one of the founders of the association Philosophie and Psychoanalyse
e.V.; see www.psychoanalyseundphilosophie.de. Member of the steering committee for this conference.
Grace Kelly (Belfast, Northern Ireland), Queen’s University of Belfast, School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work.
Gráinne Kelly (Belfast, Northern Ireland), independent
consultant, MA in peace and conflict studies. Specialist in reconciliation,
mediation, and social inclusion. Has worked for INCORE and Democratic Dialogue
(Northern Ireland). Consulted to Healing through Remembering, Mediation Northern
Ireland, Save the Children UK. Recently completed research on reconciliation
practice in Cambodia.
Sandra Konrad (Hamburg, Germany), psychologist in private
practice in Hamburg. Konrad is currently completing her dissertation on
Familiäre und gesellschaftliche Tradierungsprozesse bei jüdischen Frauen
dreier Generationen – die transgenerationellen Auswirkungen des Holocaust auf
das Selbst-Verständnis von weiblicher Identität.
Martina Kopf (Vienna, Austria), PhD in African studies at
the University of Vienna. Author of Trauma und Literatur: Das
Nicht-Erzählbare erzählen - Assia Djebar und Yvonne Vera, Frankfurt am Main,
2005. Teaches African literatures at the Department of African Studies in Vienna
with focus on the intersection of literature, history, and memory. Editor of
Südwind - Magazin für Internationale Politik, Kultur und Entwicklung in
Vienna.
Angela Kühner (München, Germany), psychologist, member of
the staff of the Department of Reflexive Social Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian
University of Munich. She is currently writing her dissertation on Whose
Trauma? Critical Trauma Discourse and the Notion of 'Collective Trauma'. Her
teaching and research focuses on discourse on trauma, Holocaust education in
'multicultural' Germany, dealing with 'trauma', 'culture' and 'difference' in
psychosocial work. See www.lrz-muenchen.de/~Reflexive_Sozialpsychologie/index.html. Member of the steering committee for this conference.
Manasi Kumar (London, UK), a native of New Delhi, India;
currently working on her doctoral thesis titled Attachment and Social Trauma
of Earthquake and Riots affected Children in Gujarat (India) at the
Psychoanalysis Unit, Department of Psychology, University College London. Her
interests include critical psychology, trauma theory, and psychoanalysis.
Ilka Lennertz (Dresden, Germany) studied psychology at the
Free University of Berlin, specializing in psychoanalytic psychology, attachment
theory, and cognitive neuroscience. Worked in a psychiatric clinic for children
and adolescents and also for a NGO in Mostar, Bosnia-Hercegowina. She is now
studying attachment, trauma, and internal representations in Bosnian refugee
children as a doctoral candidate in psychoanalytic psychology at the University
of Kassel and the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt/Main with a scholarship
from Heinrich Böll Foundation
Ulrike Loch (Kassel, Germany), social worker and lecturer at
the Faculty of Social Work, University of Kassel. Her doctoral thesis will be
published in fall 2006 as Sexualisierte Gewalt in Kriegs- und
Nachkriegskindheiten, Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich.
Susanne Luhmann (Sudbury, ON, Canada), Dipl.-Paed., MA, PhD.
assistant professor and chair of women’s studies at Laurentian University,
Sudbury as well as an affiliated researcher with The Centre for German and
European Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada.
Amy Marczewski (Los Angeles, CA, USA), Ph.D. candidate
in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of
California, Los Angeles. She has conducted research in France, Senegal, and
Rwanda. Her dissertation, “Writing Memory: Francophone African Literature's
Re-Imagining of the Rwandan Genocide” focuses on questions of memory,
transnational identity, and reconciliation in the aftermath of genocide through
the study of literary texts born of the “Rwanda: writing by duty of memory”
project.
Usche Merk (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa), Dipl.-Paed. (Masters in Education), post-grad degree in Education and International Development and trained as systemic counselor. Currently she is working as an adviser to “Sinani - KwaZulu-Natal Programme for Survivors of Violence” in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa employed by WFD (Weltfriedensdienst) Berlin, Germany. For many years she was project coordinator on Southern Africa and head of psychosocial programs at medico international, Frankfurt, Germany, editing a series of publications on challenges of psychosocial work in post-conflict regions. See www.medico-international.de/en/, wfd.de/wfd/, and www.survivors.org.za/.
Predrag Miljanovic (Novi Sad, Serbia), physician,
neuropsychiatrist, REBT psychotherapist and associate fellow of the Albert Ellis
Institute NYC. From 1991-1999, he acted as program director of the Association
for Mental Health Protection of War Veterans and Victims of War. N ow supervisor
of the Trauma Center Novi Sad, he has practiced medical and psychotherapy work
with traumatised people in Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia since 1991. Has worked
with Serbian, Croatian, and Albanian war veterans, including multiethnic
seminars.
Karin Mlodoch (Berlin, Germany) received her diploma in
psychology from the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the psychosocial
situation of Anfal women in Kurdistan-Iraq and is now program director for Iraq
at HAUKARI, Association for International Cooperation e.V., Frankfurt/Main. Her
work focuses on the development and accompaniment of assistance programs for
victims of political and gender-based violence in Iraq; her major areas of study
are psychosocial assistance to victims of war and violence; cross cultural
psychology. See: www.haukari.de .
Birgit Möller (Hamburg, Germany; San Francisco, CA, USA),
PhD, psychologist, works at the Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, and as a visiting
researcher at the University of California at San Francisco. Since 2000 she is a
project manager of a psychotherapeutic project in Kosovo and conducting seminars
in child psychiatry and psychotherapy for the German Academic Exchange Service
in Southeast Europe. Her research focus is psychotherapy with traumatized
refugee children and their families from Kosovo.
Raya Morag (Jerusalem, Israel), PhD, cinema scholar. Assistant professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Main areas of research and teaching: Trauma discourse; war, cinema and trauma; the New German Cinema; American Vietnam War Movies; feminist-corporeal theory; Israeli and Palestinian films on the Intifada.
Tobie Nathan (Paris, France), PhD, full professor of
psychology and psychopathology, founder of the Georges Devereux Center,
University of Paris 8; see www.ethnopsychiatrie.net
. Tobie Nathan is currently cultural counselor at the Embassy of France in
Israel. Author of numerous academic books and articles on clinical
ethnopsychiatry, he has also published several novels.
Stephanie Neuner (München, Germany) studied modern history
and politics at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich and the University of
Edinburgh and is now teaching modern history at the University of the Bundeswehr
Munich. She is working on her PhD project on State Insurance and Welfare
Policy for 'War neurotics' of WW I. Politics and Psychiatry in Germany, c.
1920-1939. Her general research interests focus on health politics from the
early modern period to the 20th century, and currently on the practices of
compensation of trauma.
Galia Plotkin Amrami (Tel Aviv, Israel), M.A. in sociology
and social anthropology, is a d octoral candidate at the Cohn Institute for the
History and the Philosophy of Sciences and Ideas and the Porter School of
Cultural Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. The title of her thesis project
is: National Conflict and Psychic Trauma: Construction of National-Traumatic
Narrative in Israeli Therapeutic Field. She is a group facilitator in a
community unit in Natal, Israeli Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War.
Augustina Rahmanovic-Koning (Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
holds a degree (M.A.) in education studies and works as a gestalt therapist and
classical homeopath at the Vive Zene Center for Therapy and Counselling in
Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina . She has worked in Vive Zene with victims of war
trauma and torture since 1994.
Jan Philipp Reemtsma (Hamburg, Germany), Professor of German
Literature, University of Hamburg. Founder and executive director of the Hamburg
Institute for Social Research. Member of the steering committee for this
conference.
Isobel Reilly (Belfast, Northern Ireland) holds a degree in
social work and psychotherapy; she is course director of the Family Therapy
Training Programmes at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work,
Queen’s University Belfast. Development officer for post qualifying courses in
family therapy since 2000. Since qualifying as a social worker in 1974, Reilly
has held appointments in child, adolescent, and adult mental health; social work
and family therapy education and training; and project development (family
therapy, HIV/AIDS, foster care).
Miriam Rieck (Haifa, Israel), M.A., researcher at the Ray
D. Wolf Centre for Study of Psychological Stress, University of Haifa, Israel,
responsible for its archives for studies and testimonies on later effects of the
Holocaust on survivors and their offspring. Research interests: psychological
state of child survivors; Wiedergutmachung for emotional damage to
survivors; social-psychological study on inter-group bias comparing Israeli
Jews, Israeli Palestinians, and Palestinian Authority residents . See her
annotated bibliography, The archives for study of the later psychological
effects of the Holocaust on its Survivors: research-faculty.haifa.ac.il/arch/.
Brenda Anne Roche (Toronto, ON, Canada; London, UK), doctor
of philosophy, public health, and policy. Post-doctoral research fellow, London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2005). Now conducting analysis of
qualitative data collected as part of a multi-country (European) study of the
experiences of women who have been trafficked (for sex work and domestic
labour).
Sibylle Rothkegel (Berlin, Germany), psychologist, currently
works for the Center for Psychological Counseling for Victims of Right-wing
Extremist, Xenophobic, and Anti-Semitic Violence. Previously at the
Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims in Berlin; International
Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims, Denmark; Co-ordination Office for
Women's Advocacy; most recently, for Overseas Services in Sierra Leone.
Experience in Lebanon, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Sierra Leone. Member of
the Office of Psychosocial Issues. See: www.opsiconsult.com.
Emilia Salvanou (Athens, Greece), PhD in social anthropology
and history. Works at the Foundation of the Hellenic World in Athens. Her
current academic interests are the study of anthropological and psychological
aspects of modern Greek history.
Eyad El Sarraj (Gaza, Palestine), MD, child psychiatrist; he manages the mental health centre that he founded in Gaza, as well as a rehabilitation program for victims of torture. The Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) is a Palestinian non-governmental, non-profit organization established in 1990 to provide comprehensive community mental health services - therapy, training and research - to the population of the Gaza Strip. See: www.gcmhp.net/.
Jack Saul (New York, NY, USA), p sychologist, Ph.D.,
director of the International Trauma Studies Program, Mailman School of Public
Health, Columbia University; director of Refuge: Refugee Resource Center in New
York, member of the Kosovar Family Professional Education Collaborative.
Training and service-based research on family and community approaches with post
torture, war, terrorism, natural disaster populations; trans-disciplinary
collaborations with media and the performing arts. See: www.itspnyc.org.
Hildegard Schürings (Fronhausen, Germany) holds a doctorate
in education studies, has worked in the Great Lakes region of central Africa
since 1978 and has published widely on Rwanda, its history and colonial period,
relevant educational issues, and the genocide and crimes against humanity
perpetrated there. A consultant who works in the areas of development aid and
civilian peace-promoting projects, she is also managing director of Imbuto e.V.;
See www.Imbuto.de.
Deborah Staines (Sydney, Australia) holds a PhD in cultural
studies and is now a cultural theorist affiliated with Macquarie University. Has
published primarily on Auschwitz and is currently examining aspects of
Sonderkommando experience. Interested in questions of collective relations to
traumatic events and remembrance practices. See: www.ccs.mq.edu.au/staff_dstaines.php.
Daniel Strassberg (Zürich, Switzerland), psychoanalyst and
philosopher with doctoral degrees in medicine and philosophy, now w orking in
private practice and teaching philosophy and psychoanalysis at the University of
Zurich. His book about Giambattista Vico is in press. See his personal website
at www.psychologie.unizh.ch/klipsa/postgrad/DanielStrassberg.shtml.
Ralf Syring (Dakar, Senegal; Angola and
Mozambique), pediatrician, he also holds degrees in theology and social
sciences. Now health advisor Africa for Christian Children’s Fund (NGO). From
1995 to January 2006 he was a representative of several NGOs in Southern Africa
(Medico International, Terre des Hommes) based in Angola and Mozambique. His
previous experience includes a period as a physician in the war in El Salvador,
as a teacher at vocational schools, and as radio correspondent.
Stefan Trobisch-Lütge (Berlin, Germany), psychologist,
psychological psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, trauma-therapist (EMDR) in private
practice. Director of Gegenwind, Beratungsstelle für politisch Traumatisierte
der DDR-Diktatur [Counselling Centre for Politically Traumatised People from the
Former GDR] in Berlin. Since 1991, a further focus of his work has been
psychotherapeutic treatment of severe forms of traumatization (including sexual
abuse).
Aline Gloriose Uwizigiye (Kigali, Rwanda), trauma counsellor
and national coordinator of the psychosocial program of IBUKA ASBL. Ibuka is an
umbrella organisation for survivor organisations in Rwanda, representing them at
national and international levels. Ibuka means ‘remember’. Ibuka was created in
1995 in order to address issues of justice, memory, social and economic problems
faced by survivors. See: www.neveragaininternational.org/news/ibuka.html.
Giudo Vitiello (Roma, Italy), PhD, University of Florence;
instructor at the Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Rome "La
Sapienza". Main areas of research and teaching: German cinema and "perpetrators'
trauma"; film and the Holocaust; post-traumatic cinema. See personal homepage at
www.unpopperuno.net.
Harald Weilnböck (Zürich, Switzerland), PhD in literature
studies and cultural theory in 1994 at the University of California, Los Angeles
and the Université de Paris; Habilitationsschrift on Borderline literarische
Interaktion am Beispiel der frühen Kriegschriften Ernst Jüngers in 2004.
Current EU project in qualitative media and reader response research at the
universities of Zürich and Leipzig on how persons mentally interact with
fictional narratives in dealing with biographical and/or psycho-trauma issues:
“Narrative media interaction and psycho-trauma therapy”.
Barbara Weyermann (Berlin, Germany), economist and social
anthropologist, has worked for UNICEF, Christlicher Friedensdienst, and most
recently for Terres des hommes in Nepal, experience in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Kosovo, Croatia, Nepal, Namibia, South Africa. Member of the Office of
Psychosocial Issues. See: www.opsiconsult.com.
Agnieszka Widera-Wysoczanska (Wroclaw, Poland), c linical
psychologist and psychotherapist, adjunct at the Division of Clinical
Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Wroclaw University; certified trauma
specialist (PARPA) and trainer of the Polish Psychological Association; also
works at the Institute of Psychotherapy. Co-developer / psychotherapist of the
first Polish Mental Health Center for People from Dysfunctional Families.
Founding member of the Polish Therapeutic Society, chair of its section on the
therapy of persons with complex posttraumatic stress.
Jolande Withuis (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), sociologist,
senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD).
Methodologically combines historical, psychodynamical, and sociological
perspectives. Currently conducting international comparative research on how
different societies have processed periods of heavy violence and whether, when,
and how psychological notions like trauma became dominant in public discourse on
this violence. Author of Recognition: From War Trauma to Culture of
Complaint, 2002 .
Nathalie Zajde (Paris, France), PhD, clinical psychologist,
professor at Université de Paris 8; clinical psychologist and researcher at the
Ethnopsychiatric Academic Centre Georges Devereux. Created the first
psychological and research settings for Shoah survivors and their offspring in
France. Founded a university clinic for psycho-trauma research and training at
the University of Burundi in Bujumbura. Head of the first ethnopsychiatric
consultation unit in Israel at the psychiatric hospital Beer Yaacov since 2005.
See www.ethnopsychiatrie.net.
Jasna Zecevic (Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a geologist
and director of Vive Zene-Center for therapy and counselling, Tuzla, Bosnia and
Herzegovina. Since 1994, she has worked in Vive Zene with war trauma and torture
victims.
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