Psychodynamic Perspectives on Asylum Seekers and the Asylum-Seeking Process

Psychodynamic 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 psycho-dynamic perspective, differences in the historical/motivational routes of asylum seekers

Barbara Eisold has worked as an evaluator of asylum seekers in collaboration with a number of organizations, including Health Rights International, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and The Cardozo School of Law, where she is an associate faculty member. She is also a faculty member of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and maintains a private psychotherapy practice in New York City.

Introduction Chapter One: The nature of psychosocial asylum evaluations: Implications for client and clinician Chapter Two: Heroic Asylum seekers from around the world Chapter Three: Female Genital Mutilation and the wish for "life": Cultural considerations in the development of personal agency Chapter Four: Central American Women on the Run: Feminicide and its history; Afterword; Appendix I: Asylum Law in Brief Appendix II: Imprisoning Asylum Seekers Appendix III: Outline: Prospective Affidavit of A Mental Health Professional in Support of An Asylum Seeker Appendix IV: Female Genital Mutilation: Facts and Figures Appendix V: Background information: My Clients/ Other Women with FGM