Psychodynamic Perspectives on Asylum Seekers and the Asylum-Seeking Process

Taylor & Francis

Psychodynamic Perspectives on Asylum Seekers and the Asylum-Seeking ProcessEncountering Well-Founded Fear\nAuthor(s): Barbara K. Eisold\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138354418, 978-1138354418\nSynopsis\nPsychodynamic Perspectives on Asylum Seekers and the Asylum-Seeking Process looks at the psychosocial assessment of asylum seekers from three perspectives: forensic, psychodynamic, and political and then attempts to better understand, from a psychodynamic perspective, differences in the historical/motivational routes of asylum seekers themselves. \n\nBarbara Eisold begins in Chapter One by exploring the unique evaluation relationship of psychosocial assessment and the striking will to survive of the asylum seekers that it puts into focus, using a psychodynamic lens. The forensic value of psychosocial assessment and its potential as both a political and a therapeutic tool are then described. Chapter Two describe.