Assauging pain: therepeutic care for torture survivors

In the first half of this chapter the author documents the challenges of the therapist to restore dignity to those who suffer both a shattered body and a broken spirit. In the second half of the chapter she looks at how Holocaust survivors had developed some resilience to suffering, survival mechanisms and courage in the ghettos and camps which heped them in their own postwar integration and mitigated the need for psychiatric help. They were also helped by banding together with fellow survivors.