Psychosocial accompaniment to libertae the suffering associated with the experience of forced displacement

Stella Sacipa, Raúl Vidales, Luisa Galindo, Claudia Tovar

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Abstract

This article presents some results of the "Meanings of the 'Reframing the Experience' Psychosocial Accompaniment with People facing Forced Displaced". It is centered on the analysis of feelings generated by the rootlessness, their transformations (reframing) and their permanence, through the participation of a group of people in an accompaniment process proposed by the Mencoldes Foundation together with the "Cultures of Peace" Practicum Project of the Psychology Department at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Feelings associated to displacement were fear, embarrassment, sadness, uncertainty lack of trust, homesickness and suffering. The accompaniment allowed the transit from suffering to hope and from lack of trust to trust. Feelings associated to the traumatized memory (Lira, 1990) couldn't be reframed. The main factors for the permanence of these feelings are the continuity of the armed conflict and the scarcity of structural conditions for a dignified re-restoration. The text analyzes the way in which, despite adversity, participants overcame difficulties and rebuilt their lives in an unknown cultural context.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)589-600
Number of pages12
JournalUniversitas Psychologica
Volume6
Issue number3
StatePublished - Sep 2007

Keywords

  • Armed conflict
  • Displacement (psychology)
  • Emotions

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