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This book brings together leading international psychoanalysts to discuss what psychoanalysis can offer to people who have experienced trauma, flight, and migration. The four parts of the book cover several elements of this work, including psychoanalytic projects beyond the couch, and collaboration with the UN. Each chapter presents an example of the applications of psychoanalysis with a specific group or in a particular context, from working with refugees in China to understanding the experiences of women who have witnessed political violence in Peru. Trauma, flight, and migration have become signatures of our time. Towards the end of 2021 there were 82.4 million migrants and refugees seeking asylum from their countries of origin in countries far away from war, civil unrest, and economic turmoil. Migrants and refugees often suffer from mental health problems, having experienced crises caused by dislocation from their homes, with a loss of all that is familiar. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our world in a previously unimaginable way within a very short time. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased social injustice: the gap between the privileged and the underprivileged, the rich and the poor, has widened. Many of the psychoanalysts who have written chapters for this book will address the profound experience of limitation and loss in the face of pervasive structural violence in the 21st century. The book reveals the thinking and work of a small group of the many psychoanalysts who are currently working in the humanitarian field. The innovative book will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists looking to learn more about working with people who have experienced the impact of traumatic movement or migration. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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Summary This chapter includes clinical cases, background, evidence-based practical management options, preventive measures, key-point summaries of infection in the luteal phase of IVF and answers to questions patients ask. Maternal infection in the luteal phase of IVF corresponds to infection in the periconceptional period of a natural pregnancy. The infection can be localized to the endometrium or systemic, with varying consequences to the implanting embryo. Pelvic infection can be symptomatic or subclinical, depending on factors varying from the size of the inoculum to the woman's immune response. Systemic infections induce a generalized proinflammatory state which can impair gamete quality and affect endometrial receptivity in the luteal phase. While angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is indeed expressed in the female genital tract, there is so far a lack of evidence to suggest a deleterious effect of COVID-19 upon reproductive outcomes in those attempting to conceive.
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The early prevention project "Strong together!" supports refugee parents and their young children (0-4 years) in Berlin, Germany. It aims to mitigate the transmission of trauma to the generation born in exile. For refugee families who have only recently arrived in Germany, the COVID-19 pandemic poses a particularly great challenge. Not only are they confronted with numerous challenges in respect to re-building their lives in Germany after fleeing war and persecution, but are also vulnerable to conscious and unconscious anxieties, fantasies, and conflicts evoked by the pandemic and the threat it poses to their lives. This was observed in the context of the mother-child groups of "Strong together!". Many expressed great insecurity, heightened levels of anxiety, re-experiencing of traumatic scenes, and over-strictly self-isolating themselves and their children, even attraction to fundamentalist ideologies. In this paper, some of the empirical and clinical findings of "Strong together!" are summarized and reflected on within a framework of psychoanalytic trauma theory. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)