Collection: When the Trauma is not Past or ‘Post’: Palestinian Perspective on Responding to Trauma and Torture
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The following writings and interviews describe the work of the Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre for Victims of Torture (TRC) which is based in Ramallah, in the occupied Palestinian Territories. This organisation was founded by Dr Mahmud Sehwail eight years ago and provides counselling, psychological and psychiatric services to the Palestinian community.
Articles in this collection include:
[learn_more caption=”Responding to Continuing Traumatic Events— Dr Mahmud Sehwail”] Dr Mahmud Sehwail is the founder and Director of the Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre for Victims of Torture (TRC). This paper explains how the TRC came into existence and how this organisation responds to those who have experienced trauma as well as aiming to prevent further abuse and violence. [/learn_more]
[learn_more caption=”A Human Rights Approach to Psychotherapy— Khader Rasras”] This interview explores what it means to develop a human rights approach to psychotherapy and how these principles affect therapeutic work. It also considers ways of reaching out to survivors of trauma. Khader Rasras is the head psychologist at the TRC. The interviewer was David Denborough. [/learn_more]
[learn_more caption=”Glimpses of Therapeutic Conversations: Engaging with Narrative Ideas— Bilal Hassounh, Iman Ja’ouni, Deema Al Tibi, Amani Al-Jamal, Maryam Burqan, Wisam Abdallah”] This paper consists of a collection of short stories of therapeutic practice from Palestinian counsellors and psychologists at the Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre for Victims of Torture (TRC). The stories particularly focus on the ways in which they have been engaging with narrative ideas in their practice. [/learn_more]
[learn_more caption=”Public Speech: Bringing People Together— Faiseh Muhtaseb”] A further aspect of the work of the TRC involves hosting public meetings in villages and towns around mental health issues. In this paper, Faiseh Muhtaseb describes the thinking behind this work. [/learn_more]
[learn_more caption=”The Media as an Avenue for Therapeutic and Community Work̛— Hasan Salim”] Alongside the public meetings that are organised by the TRC, their media liaison officer, Hasan Salim, uses newspapers, the radio and television as mediums for further therapeutic and community work. This paper describes this work and the thinking that informs it. The interviewer was David Denborough. [/learn_more]
