'Just black sometimes': analytic tools applied at the frontlines of social upheaval, part 1. Issue 5 (11th October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tyminski, Robert
• Is Part Of: Journal of analytical psychology. Volume 63:Issue 5(2018)
• Page Start: 619
• Page End: 640
• Publication Date: 2018-10-11
• Subjects: Germany -- organizational consultation -- refugees -- trauma -- unaccompanied minors -- vicarious trauma; mineurs non‐accompagnés -- Allemagne -- réfugiés -- traumatisme -- traumatisme par procuration -- consultation au niveau d'une organisation; unbegleitete Minderjährige -- Deutschland -- Flüchtlinge -- Trauma -- stellvertretendes Trauma -- Organisationsberatung; minori non accompagnati -- Germania -- rifugiati -- trauma -- trauma vicario -- consulenza organizzativa; несопровождаемые несовершеннолетние -- Германия -- беженцы -- травма -- вторичная травма -- организационная консультация; menores no acompañados -- Alemania -- refugiados -- trauma -- trauma vicario -- consulta organizacional; 无人陪伴的未成年人 -- 德国 -- 难民 -- 创伤 -- 替代性创伤 -- 组织咨询; Jungian psychology -- Periodicals; 131.3405
• DOI: 10.1111/1468-5922.12448
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0021-8774

Abstract

Abstract: Analysts are increasingly grappling with making space for the discussion of turbulent and disturbing current events in their practices. This social disorder raises questions about the role of social activism and advocacy for groups suffering discrimination, persecution, violence, and displacement. Jung too commented on the immediacy of political happenings that show up in our practices with 'violence'. The author discusses an organizational consultation he did in Berlin in 2017 to consult for an NGO that handles placements for unaccompanied minors who are refugees. Such consultation can employ analytic ideas and concepts to the benefit of the organization and its staff. This process, though, requires some translation of these ideas so as not to burden consultees with theoretical terminology with which they may have little or no familiarity. The role of vicarious trauma is discussed, including how it is passed along, and its implications for frontline helpers are considered. Developmental aspects of adolescence figured prominently in the consultation. This is the first of two papers addressing this topic; the second will focus on interactions that the author had with young refugees.